In the past month, a lot of news was centered on interest rates and when (not if) they are going to go up. There was concern that the Fed would increase rates a little earlier than expected at their September meetings, but they held rates steady. The prevailing feeling amongst many economists is that rates will hold until December, the final FMOC meeting of the year and first after the election. So, given the likelihood of a rate hike fairly soon, I crunched some numbers to s