Comments on: Using Treasury Direct to buy T-bills

By: matthew foster

matthew foster — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:34:13 +0000

Im thinking about investing in a $1000,00
T-Bill and I need to know how they work and how I would benefit from them and how I would collect the interest after it matures and is this a good or bad investment during this resesion/depression for a low income

By: Maryann Mestas

Maryann Mestas — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:15:27 +0000

Great article!!!

By: 10 Savings Accounts

10 Savings Accounts — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:53:36 +0000

Moneynet sounds alarm over poor-paying children's savings accounts…

Interest rates on children’s savings accounts — some of the most heavily marketed of all savings products — can leave kids badly out of pocket, online financial data service Moneynet warns today….

By: Velo

Velo — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:55:54 +0000

Is there a way to purchase 28 day bills using your credit card or paypal?

By: 1-month T-bill now at 5.39% APY, gap continues to widen | Experiments in Finance

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:19:55 +0000

[...] This is a good time to check and review tax-effective yields, using the 28-day bill as an example and California’s 9.3% tax bracket: Unadjusted APY ………………. 5.39% Itemizers (deduct state tax)…. 5.95% Non-Itemizers @ 15%………… 5.06% Non-Itemizers @ 25%………… 6.16% Non-Itemizers @ 28%………… 6.19% Non-Itemizers @ 33%………… 6.26% Non-Itemizers @ 35%………… 6.29% [...]

By: Ricemutt

Ricemutt — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:22:25 +0000

Actually, you can’t “open” an account at Treasury Direct. To use Treasury Direct, all you’re really doing is creating a link from them to an existing account that you have.

I’m not sure if you can link any account to Treasury Direct, though. They’re supposed to work with almost all savings and checking accounts, but I don’t know if any IRA or brokerage accounts can be linked to them. For a good start on learning more about treasuries and using Treasury Direct, you might want to take a look at the Fatwallet thread here.

By: Tan

Tan — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:03:03 +0000

can I open an IRA account with the Treasury Direct in order to rollover my company 401K into it when I leave my company?

By: Andy the Invest

Andy the Invest — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:32:23 +0000

I’m not sure what I found but I like what I’ve seen so far. Thanks!

By: Calculating tax-equivalent yields | Experiments in Finance

Calculating tax-equivalent yields | Experiments in Finance — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:22:30 +0000

[...] Personal finance While I was out of the country, I wasn’t able to follow up on buying T-bills through Treasury direct. Now that I’m back, it seems that recent T-bill yields have taken a slight plummet. As a California resident though, these rates are still attractive in comparison to high-yield savings accounts and rates on CDs because T-bills are exempt from state income tax. For most people in California, including us, that represents a whopping 9.3% of our income. [...]