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Re:Chinese solar producer Suntech declares bankruptcy by JulianK on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:44AM (#5412984)
I know you were just making a rough comparison, but $150 is 1% of 15000. If you're saying you spend $150/month in electricity and that's barely more than you get from a mutual fund, are you saying you get on the order of 12% a year from your mutual funds, even today?

I need different mutual funds.

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Re:Chinese solar producer Suntech declares bankruptcy by sliverstorm on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:58AM (#5413029)
Plenty of dividend stocks give more than 1%, even.

Edit: I am not on the ball tonight

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Re:Chinese solar producer Suntech declares bankruptcy by seanmcdirmid on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:13AM (#5413074)
> Plenty of dividend stocks give more than 1%, even.

1% a month, 12% a year on stock price? This is utterly impossible, the stock price would have risen. But if you can tell me where I can get 1% a month for some N$ investment, please share!

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Re:Chinese solar producer Suntech declares bankruptcy by JulianK on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:08AM (#5413057)
Per month? Quite consistently? I'm well outside my realm of expertise here so I'm honestly curious. It seems like if this were even semi-consistent people would be borrowing very heavily from banks and dropping it into these consistent stocks with something like 2-4x the interest.

I guess I'm always suspicious of free money.

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Re:Chinese solar producer Suntech declares bankruptcy by sliverstorm on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:12AM (#5413072)
Per month?

Oh, duh. My mistake. I can't even claim "it's late, I'm tired"

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