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Why Tax-Exempt Investments Are No Longer So Exciting
March 4, 2009
By Peter Miller | Money-Rates Columnist
By Peter Miller | Money-Rates Columnist
It used to be that there was a difference between investments with taxable dividends and those which were not taxable. If your tax bracket was high enough, tax-exempt investments made real financial sense.
For instance, back in the 1950s and 1960s the federal income tax rate was as high as 91 percent for earnings over $400,000. [...]
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3 Ideas for Savings Investors - Series I Bonds, Municipal Bonds, Online Bank Rate Deals
January 23, 2008
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
The stock market has had a rough start in 2008 with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 10% for the year with more trouble anticipated. The volatility of the markets has launched a continued flight-to-quality into safer investments just at a time when the rates and yields on those investments are dropping in line with [...]
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