If you saved all the money and assumed a 7% return, you would breakeven around age 87 or 88. At…
Personal opinion: If you are in good health, take the monthly payment — I assume it would be monthly. On…
Actually I think I mean the disparity was much “less”.
I’d take the lump sum. That’s not what I did as a retired Fed, but the disparity between the lump…
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I don’t like this new I Bond interest rate, should I sell and invest elsewhere?
May 1, 2015, update: Series I Savings Bonds to pay 0.0% interest; EE Bonds bump up to 0.3% The Treasury announced this week that it is dropping the fixed rate on Series I Savings Bonds to 0.0% for new bonds sold … Continue reading
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Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities 
It's a good return for an annuity taken at that age, but it's a small enough sum that it may…