The best strategy continues to be what many of you already practice: diversify, focus on the long term, and allow for a margin of error in all of your investment decisions.
Theerror affected under 1% of the US debt being paid at the time, but interest rates on short term bonds rose nearly 1% in a short period because of that error.
They have offered for me to make a one-off lump sum payment to bring the account up to date or to extend my mortgage term, but this does not alter the fact that it is their error that will now impact on my finances.
While Iomega has done a good job of building its Zip disk brand over the past several years, it made a critical error when it reduced the prices on the drive and pinned its hopes for a long-term revenue stream on sales of disks.