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Topic Title: I bonds
Topic Summary: currently yielding 9.62%
Created On: 05/06/2022 08:50 AM
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 I bonds   - grdsurf - 05/06/2022 08:50 AM  
 I bonds   - Cole - 05/06/2022 09:23 AM  
 I bonds   - grdsurf - 05/06/2022 09:45 AM  
 I bonds   - Bamboo - 05/07/2022 10:59 AM  
 I bonds   - dingpatch - 05/09/2022 08:13 AM  
 I bonds   - 3rdworldlover - 05/10/2022 12:12 PM  
 I bonds   - StirfryMcflurry - 05/11/2022 03:55 AM  
 I bonds   - dingpatch - 05/11/2022 05:03 AM  
 I bonds   - 3rdworldlover - 05/11/2022 09:04 AM  
 I bonds   - dingpatch - 05/11/2022 09:27 AM  
 I bonds   - Cole - 05/12/2022 06:35 AM  
 I bonds   - RustyTruck - 05/18/2022 01:52 PM  
 I bonds   - dingpatch - 05/31/2022 05:41 AM  
 I bonds   - grdsurf - 05/31/2022 06:50 PM  
 I bonds   - Cole - 06/02/2022 05:46 PM  
 I bonds   - dingpatch - 09/18/2022 07:46 AM  
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dingpatch

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Had a talk with a "contrarian" yesterday; he's still on the side "making it big in the Stock Market" and such. He was all "9% aint much, , , , , ,". Well, , , , that's Ok if you can easily except the risks.

I talked with my brother the other week. Right off-the-bat and before I could say much he exclaimed that the bank is only paying .4% (that's 4 tenths of a percent) on "savings". Fook that.

On the other end, , , , , there is/was a thread or two here about "crypto". I had put in only $90 through Coinbase, spread across a couple "favorable" looking coins, just to "watch it". My $90 is now only $31 something.

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grdsurf

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9.62% might not be that exciting to some of the whipper snappers here but if you are near retirement age and don't want to take a major hit to your "nest egg" its just fine. The only problem is the amount you can invest is limited even after you use all the SS#'s in your household. The stawk market has had an incredible run since the lows of 2009 and valuations are now reminiscent of the "dot com" days of 1999/2000 on some of the tech names(although some have already been cut in half from the their highs). If you lose 50% you have to make a 100% return just to get back to even. That's a sobering metric in my book. Seems like commodities have done OK recently with oil out performing by a considerable margin, take a look at XOM chart as an example. No doubt that commodity out performance is also part of the reason inflation numbers are off the hook. The poster child for for ultra high risk investing the last several years has been the Ark Innovation ETF managed by Cathie Wood...down 50% year to date. It has/had large positions in Tesla and other stuff like Coinbase. Tuttle Capital Short Innovation ticker SARK shorts everything in the Ark EFT and it's up over 50% year to date. There are some alternative investing options out there like "Yield Street" where you can get exposure to investments previously available only to HNW individuals. Stuff like art, apartment buildings etc. And finally rental properties have been benefiting from the rising rents while also participating in capital appreciation as of late. If you can manager the expenses like insurance, property taxes and maintenance with good tenants on board rentals can create a decent income stream with tax benefits like depreciation, etc.

Edited: 06/01/2022 at 07:18 AM by grdsurf
 06/02/2022 05:46 PM
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Cole

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I have to say I'm not surprised that stocks for low profit/high stock value companies have declined. There was a time you actually had to make money with your company before it became profitable in the Markets. Buybacks are nothing but a shell game.

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dingpatch

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So, I guess some watchers are saying that the next I Bond rate could be as high as 9.86% on November 1.

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