On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:44:02 -0400, Kurt Ullman wrote:

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On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:03:07 -0400, Duesenberg wrote:






Your point about the air conditioning is what we do at home. We like
our house cool at night and are willing to pay for it.
But WHERE do you get 7% today??? 0.7% is more realistic.


You can get around 6-7% dividend return on quite a few companies, many
even 4 or 5 stars on S&P. Go down to 5% or so and picks up even more
and that is with just a simple screen. 0.7% is hardly realistic either
outside of a money market.

I've been getting that in the (conservative) bond funds I have in my 401K. The
money in the bank has been doing about .5%, though.