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- From: nfs@hart (Norbert Schlenker)
- Subject: Re: Beginner questions -- where can we go for help?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.230915.11590@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:09:15 GMT
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- In article <By19G4.KA2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cs101a64@eng-nxt04.cso.uiuc.edu (cs101 student) writes:
- >In article <BxxJzG.A1r@news.fai.com> flake@flakes.ossi.com (Christopher
- >Flake) writes:
- >> It seems my wife and I have money *sitting* in our checking account.
-
- >Do NOT leave your money sitting in a checking account. Instead, use a
- >MONEY MARKET FUND. Your checking account pays no more than about 2%
- >interest (maybe even none).
-
- Gee. Mine pays 2.23%. Donoghue reported Wednesday that money market
- funds averaged 2.74%. For amounts under $100k, you can consider the
- difference an insurance premium and a fee for being able to write
- checks of small size.
-
- >Also, it is only as safe as the bank behind
- >it, which may have made risky leveraged buyout loans.
-
- Very true.
-
- >A money market fund
- >can only make loans only to borrowers of top-notch credit quality (like
- >the U.S. government and AAA-rated corporations).
-
- Not the slightest bit true.
-
- >ABSOLUTELY NOBODY has ever lost money in a money market fund
- >during their ENTIRE 20-year history.
-
- Disingenuous. Let's just say that it was very generous of the fund
- managers to bail out their money market funds when they got into
- trouble in the 80s. (Not to worry - it only happened twice.)
-
- I am no great fan of banks myself. I believe most are utterly
- insolvent. Nevertheless, at a time of low interest rates and low
- differentials among alternatives, a checking account is not a terrible
- place to have your money.
-
- Norbert
- nfs@cs.princeton.edu
-