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May 11, 2008
Todays Investment U E-Letter
Money Market Funds
Why Your "Plus" Could Become A Minus
Issue #792 by Alexander Green, Chairman, Investment U; Investment Director, The Oxford Club

Last summer my wife and I were shopping for a potential second home in Charlottesville, VA. We quit looking when we decided the prices were too nutty.

(Home prices there have gotten more attractive lately, however. They've come down from insane to merely ridiculous.)

Anyway, the money we were planning to use for the purchase I kept in money market funds, specifically the Vanguard Tax-Free Money Market Fund.

"I know a better alternative," one broker told me. "I have a money market plus fund that will yield more, even after taxes." I told him thanks but I wasn't interested… [continue] [sign up for the IU e-Letter]

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