Let the mixture cool slightly and return to the heat.
They looked like a tweak that would enable the bank to extract a slightly higher return, and Citi's most senior managers knew nothing about them.
A short period of very slight undershoot of unemployment below thee natural rate will facilitate a slightly faster return of inflation to our objective.
Perhaps this has been from investors who have seen the equity rallies as a signal that risk has reduced slightly and return expectations have improved.
So while BI Research has had a slightly greater return after shifting to quick access, relative to the broad market, its performance has been much worse.
If you don't expect to need your money for a year or two, you might get a slightly better return from a fixed-rate regular savings account.
But here's the question: Is it worth getting a slightly lower return when the fund managers are ostensibly trying to select companies that make the world better, or at least trying not to make it worse?
Some savers have begun to pour more of their cash into the corporate bond market, where big companies sell bonds to raise money, usually at a slightly higher return in exchange for modestly higher risk.
"Citigroup mismarketed this product to high-net-worth investors as an alternative to municipal bonds with a slightly higher return," said Philip M. Aidikoff, a lawyer at Aidikoff, Uhl & Bakhtiari in Beverly Hills, Calif., who represented Mr. Hosier and Mr. Murdock.
