Mr. Flood's view that the risk-reward ratio is out of balance offers little solace to investors who, seeking safety, have put up with paltry yields of money market funds.
With yields of money market funds at record lows, assets in the funds grew in January at the slowest rate in six years, according to iMoneyNet Inc. of Westborough, Mass., which tracks the industry.
Matthew Fink, president of the Investment Company Institute, said competitive bidding would "make no sense" because investors do not want to yield the choice of money managers to a group of strangers.
Average yields on money market funds plunged to their lowest levels ever last week, with yields on tax-free funds dropping below 1percentt, but investors have been pouring money in anyway, according to iMoneyNet Inc. of Westborough, Mass.
ONE idea that could yield a good deal of money is an annual parking fee for all vehicles registered in the five boroughs.
Poverty, however, does not necessarily yield to mere ministrations of money and goodwill.
While this model has good intent, it's hard to believe that these text ads yield the same amount of money or that there's even enough available advertising dollars going around to make it worthwhile for the publishers.
In that sense, there is no such thing as "petty" corruption: police shakedowns in a public market, or roadblocks in the countryside where farmers must pay up in order to transport produce to the city, may yield seemingly trivial sums of money, but they help keep poor people poor.
The sale of a business can yield a significant sum of money.
BA says its yields - the amount of money it receives per seat - have fallen as it has introduced promotions to keep people flying.
