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Raiding the Roth IRA for a Down Payment on a House

Posted in Finance on Jun 12th, 2008

I’ve been contributing (fully) to my Roth IRA account for a little over three years. At the end of this year, I’ll have around $16,000 total in my Roth IRA. Now that M and I are married and our current lease is up in August, we’re thinking about buying a place. So we’re doing all [...]

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Is ING still worth it?

Posted in Budgeting, Finance on Apr 1st, 2008

If you’ve read anything about finances on this blog, you know I am a huge fan of ING—I use their high-yield savings account to put any and all extra money I have. But with the Fed cutting the rates over and over, the interest we get in accounts like this one has fallen. From a [...]

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