How to Figure Out Net Yield on a Municipal and US Treasury Bonds

How to Figure Out Net Yield on a Municipal and US Treasury Bonds

March 5, 2012

When investing in municipal bonds, it’s important to keep in mind that the yields are generally not an across the board comparison to CD yields or US Treasury yields. Let’s go through how each investment is taxed: CD Yields = Taxable at both the state and federal level US Treasury Yields = Taxable at the…
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How to Figure Out the Net Yield on a CD (after Taxes and Inflation)

March 5, 2012

With investing, it’s always important to get an apples for apples comparison so that everything is on a levelized playing field. Most of the time we look at interest rates and yield before taxes are taken out of them. If you open up a newspaper and see an advertised CD rate at 2.00% this is…
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Only Twice in US Financial History

March 5, 2012

Halley’s Comet visits earth every 76 years. For the average person, this is a once in a life time event. Right now there is an event in the financial world that hasn’t happened since 1861 just over 150 years ago. In 2011, we completed a thirty year period in which bonds outperformed stocks. This is…
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