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Higher Yield On Brokered CD vs Early Withdrawal Option 26 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
Bond interest rates came up by about 1% after the Fed started talking about tapering Quantitative Easing. We are starting to see some higher rates in brokered CDs. This makes sense because brokered C...
Naked Juice Class Action Settlement 23 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
I like Naked Juice. I read on My Money Blog they got sued for some minor misrepresentation. I must have spent at least $100 on them in the last six years. Of course I don’t have receipts. I filed a cl...
When Will CD Rates Go Up? 21 Aug 2013 | 05:31 pm
I wrote several articles about CDs as a good alternative to bond funds a few months back. Diversify Bond Funds with CDs (Feb. 4, 2013) CD vs Bond Fund: A Case Study (Apr. 22, 2013) Why Investors Do...
2014 Social Security COLA 19 Aug 2013 | 05:25 pm
You probably heard inflation has been low lately. According to the government, the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in July 2013 was 2.0% higher than the same measure a year ago in Jul...
Required Minimum Distributions Are Not A Big Deal 17 Aug 2013 | 05:27 pm
I read The "Good Old Days" and Required Minimum Distributions by Scott Burns at AssetBuilder. Maybe it’s because I’m not at that age yet. I just don’t understand why the Required Minimum Distributions...
What To Do After PerkStreet’s Sudden Demise 15 Aug 2013 | 05:31 pm
Have you heard of PerkStreet? It’s a virtual bank that offered up to 2% reward on debit card usage if you also kept $5,000 minimum in a checking account online. This week it suddenly shutdown because ...
Help Me Unwrap The Best-Kept Secret 13 Aug 2013 | 05:28 pm
Dear readers, I need your help. I have been writing here for nearly seven years. If you have been reading for a while, it means you see value in what I write. Others don’t get the value you get becau...
Is Home Mortgage Simple Interest Or Compound Interest? 12 Aug 2013 | 05:28 pm
I had a good chuckle while reading this epic discussion thread on the Bogleheads Investment Forum: Does a home mortgage use Simple or Compound Interest? It sounds a like factual question, as in "Is M...
Why Bond ETFs Trade At a Premium or Discount 2 Aug 2013 | 05:25 pm
Jim Rowley, CFA, senior investment analyst in Vanguard Investment Strategy Group explained why ETFs trade at a premium or discount in his article Premiums, discounts, and volatility at Vanguard Blog f...
Happy Trails With Income Poor 29 Jul 2013 | 05:30 pm
This is the third and final installment on my Asset Rich Income Poor strategy. The road to asset rich sounds simple at a high level but it’s not that easy at the details level, because every decision ...
