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To: not2worry

Inflation-linked Treasury bonds (TIPS) for tax-deferred accounts and and municipal bond funds for taxable ones.


24 posted on 02/18/2009 6:05:10 AM PST by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

While interest rates will stay low for a while (forced by the Fed), I don’t think they will stay low forever. Once they start to rise, low interest rate bonds will fall in value. IMO, we are repeating the 70’s (except worse) and bonds were not a good investment in the 70’s.


30 posted on 02/18/2009 6:08:59 AM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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