The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which senior analyst Anand Chokkavelu, CFA, discusses topics across the investing world.

Annaly Capital has had a great run of low short-term interest rates. At some point, the low-interest-rate party ends. Anand discusses how the latest Fed action affects that ultimate day of rate-raising (and possibly reckoning).

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