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  • Question: Will you be writing of alternatives to 401ks in light of articles intimating the House is interested in the idea of nationalizing 401k…

  • Oct 25, 2008

    Getting Personal

    Getting Personal
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    This week, Chris and Tess answer listener questions about withdrawing from a 401K and investing extra money made from a second job after retirement.

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  • Oct 25, 2008

    TIPS

    Question: On a recent show, you suggested that investors should hold a significant amount of TIPS in their IRAs. I think this is a reasonable idea…

  • Oct 24, 2008

    A margin of safety

    Comment: My husband and I are respectively 81 and 76. Luckily my husband is very conservative and has invested largely in CD's, bonds and TIPS….

  • Question: With all this talk of the credit crisis, I'm wondering what's become of microlending and those microlending companies you've covered in…

  • Question: Many of us know about the woes being felt by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and their stock performance tells it well. But is now the time…

  • Question: I hear a lot about money market accounts, and Roth IRA's as safe haven's for investing. I've been putting money away in a ING savings…

  • Question; My husband and I are both in our early 30s and now that we are both finished with graduate school we are finally in a position for the…

  • Question: why did the market not shut down during the freefalls in the past weeks?…

  • Oct 16, 2008

    Tax exempt bonds

    Question: Can you explain why an ETF that invests in 100% government insured revenue and general obligation municipal bonds would be sliding so…