@aaronstrauss @mattyglesias actually the premium bonds! it’s gimmicky but so what.

@liamlabarge @mattyglesias i mean if you pay $0.01 for a $100 1-month note that has a yield way above 100%?

@SandrewFinance @mattyglesias yes sorry right

today i learned about the permyriad and i am now on a mission to make it a thing https://t.co/nAGHNq4vVE https://t.co/tjagjBgsUG

"yields rose by 8 permyriads today," come on, how classy is that

elsewhere wikipedia makes the point that "yields rose by 8 permyriads" is actually ambiguous in the way that "yields rose by 8 percent" would be, ugh, never mind.

i kind of can't believe that there isn't a financial newsletter already doing this as a bit, like if you're the sort of person who says "shall" for "will" surely you'd enjoy saying "permyriad" for "bp"

@coneslayer exactly, if i were editing a financial story at the New Yorker i'd definitely be crossing out "basis point" and writing in "permyriad"

@colinahiggins @manicakes yes right and wikipedia's point is that "bp" is the equivalent of "pp" here, that is, a basis point is to a permyriad as a percentage point is to a percent. i just want to be able to say that yields moved by 8 permyriads.

@justsarahdavis i assume it's pronounced "per myriad"

@perks_joanna i am aware of "beep" but never really hear it in practice and also find it upsetting. but i think it exists. not sure if it is regional.

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@pdrewienkiewicz @perks_joanna i think US practice is a bit more "bip" than "beep"

@AlphaEraser nah the premium is generally amortizable

@phdphil yeah there's a footnote https://t.co/wbr5fRBhWh

@rachelmetz @AP Taking "totally obsessed with understanding" literally I'd recommend:
- All the Devils Are Here (McLean/Nocera)
- Slapped by the Invisible Hand (Gorton)
- Diary of a Very Bad Year (n+1)
Also Sorkin's and Geithner's books & maybe Friedman & Kraus "Engineering the Financial Crisis"

@rachelmetz @AP also obviously watch "Margin Call"

@petewilz @rachelmetz @AP yes that also probably belongs on the list, though it is less immediately about the 2008 crisis in the US.

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@robinkunde lol yes oops

this strikes me as a reasonable complaint but one that you should not make at davos https://t.co/2CaRYq5UdV