“Interest rates (and changes, and future expectations regarding them) have huge impacts on asset prices” is something which is widely understood by finance professionals. “Asset prices materially impact your life” is not widely understood except by finance professionals.https://twitter.com/sama/status/1215450930293817345 …
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“My salary is a complex financial derivative” is a very counterintuitive result for many people for whom it is true.
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(FWIW I think that people should probably concentrate on the idiosyncratic risks part of that derivative rather than the interest rate part but it’s worth at least understanding that it is there so you don’t do something like get an ARM thinking ‘If rates rise, equity covers it’)
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(FWIW a lot of people would use “complex financial derivative” as a slur. I’m just using it in the positive sense. I broadly think equity ownership by employees is one of tech’s major structural innovations and is a huge portion of ongoing renegotiation of how the pie is split.)
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(There exist many options to trade off legibility / certainty for upside if legibility / certainty are more important to you, and there are many firms which are happily selling what you’re buying.)
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Tangentially related, many people are unaware of the convex characteristics of bond prices vs changes in interest rates, which is why long-term bonds held in a rebalanced portfolio have contributed so much return in the past decade.
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I sometimes wonder why the same service can only fetch half the price outside the borders of the United States
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