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Personal Finance and Investing

pangaia

(24,324 posts) Wed Dec 27, 2017, 09:26 PM Dec 2017

Question about T-Bills [View all]

I have a T-Bill ladder with my Fidelity IRA-- 12 1 year T-Bills. So one matures every month. I figure this is the safest place outside of a safe in my house, which I also use, plus a cash brokerage acct at Fidelity and a bank safe deposit box.

Will these T-Bills continue to be as 'safe' as they have been historically due to the new oligarchy/dictatorship/police state?

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Question about T-Bills [View all] pangaia Dec 2017 OP

they are safe unless these assholes start defaulting on US debt. lapfog_1 Dec 2017 #1

THAT and something like it is my concern... pangaia Dec 2017 #2

Not an investment adviser, but if T-Bills or other treasury securities go south, we are all screwed. Hoyt Dec 2017 #3

Thanks Hoyt, pangaia Dec 2017 #4

I'm still working, but as soon as I sell my house and down-size (from something that wasn't that big Hoyt Dec 2017 #6

I had to take a peek at the treasury bill / bond yields ... progree Dec 2017 #5

Thanks progree.. pangaia Dec 2017 #7

One other things come to mind -- the bonds of a sane developed country progree Dec 2017 #8

I never thought of foreign markets.. I'll do a little research thanks.. pangaia Dec 2017 #9

Fidelity has 88 different international bond funds A HERETIC I AM Dec 2017 #15

I was in PONDX for the last few years, not international but... pangaia Dec 2017 #17

Bond fund prices usually do not fluctuate all that much. A HERETIC I AM Dec 2017 #19

Thank you... pangaia Dec 2017 #20

Safe, but horrible rate of return Kilgore Dec 2017 #10

You know that you don't get that 1.48% for the 6 months, right? A HERETIC I AM Dec 2017 #12

Right. But safe is what I need. I can not lose it. pangaia Dec 2017 #13

You don't have anything to worry about. A HERETIC I AM Dec 2017 #11

Thanks Heretic. pangaia Dec 2017 #14

My pleasure. A HERETIC I AM Dec 2017 #16

And the wind off your port quarter.... pangaia Dec 2017 #18

It's a question that touches several areas bucolic_frolic Jan 2018 #21