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On a recent episode of The Investing for Beginners Podcast titled Back to the Basics: Circle of Competence, co-host Stephen Morris pitched a simple test for whether you actually understand a stock ...

RMD divisor shrinks yearly: at 73 earns $56,604, yet 17-year cumulative RMDs approach $1.4 million taxed at 20% federal rate.

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I have a soft spot for the iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (BATS: GOVT), and clearly a lot of investors do too given that it now sits at roughly $41 billion in assets under management. For a 0.05% ...