I bonds cannot be cashed in for any reason during their first 12 months. After that, any I bond you terminate before its five-year anniversary will incur an early withdrawal penalty. However, the penalty is fairly mild, at just the last three months of interest. After the five...
First, know that the transfer from your IRA account to the insurance company would be tax-free. But because you'd be receiving withdrawals of IRA money prior to age 59-1/2 you will be subject to the 10% federal tax penalty on early IRA distributions. So, for example, if you're in ...
Nowadays, we might be wary of a company named Chemtoy. But parents in the early 1940s had no problem purchasing bottles of the company’s soapy solution to give children a new favorite pastime: blowing bubbles. Just like today, most of the kids back then used bubble wands for the activit...
I guess technically CDs are "laser disks"; we should have called them that but I understand why we didn't. However, I was more or less right about the plot device that comes out of these experiments: a phenomenon that can be exploited to swap matter among the six parallel universes ...
Nowadays, we might be wary of a company named Chemtoy. But parents in the early 1940s had no problem purchasing bottles of the company’s soapy solution to give children a new favorite pastime: blowing bubbles. Just like today, most of the kids back then used bubble wands for the activit...