MoneyCafe defines the 1 Year Constant Maturity Treasury Rate (CMT) as follows:
This index is an average yield on United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of 1 year, as made available by the Federal Reserve Board. Yields are interpolated by the United States Treasury from the daily yield curve. This curve, which relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity, is based on the closing market bid yields on actively traded Treasury securities in the over-the-counter market.
(Note: This rate is updated after the Federal Reserve releases its data on the first Monday of each month.)
Bankrate.com has weekly quotes of the 1, 5, 10 and more Constant Maturity Treasury Rate info. Plus, The Federal Reserve has historical data on the rates.
Every few months, I attempt to install Linux on one of my boxes. About a year or 2 ago, I was using Xandros for a few weeks. Last week (after Vista didn’t allow me to click on a button), I deleted Vista and installed Ubuntu 7.10, then updated to 8.04. I have no idea what the difference is between the 2 versions, but everything seems to be working.
My knees shake every now and then because I have no idea what’s going on inside my box, but, so far, the experience has been relatively painless for a newbie.
Installing new programs is 100 times easier than Windows.
