From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!wb2!houxz!houxi!houxa!houxs!houxn!3211jsr Newsgroups: net.invest Title: Re: short term ira's Article-I.D.: houxn.337 Posted: Thu Jan 27 17:19:09 1983 Received: Sun Jan 30 08:02:35 1983 The February 1983 Creative Computing magazine has an article describing using visi-calc to predict the short term performance of IRA's. The calculations I've done and what this article shows is that given a high tax bracket and a high interest rate an IRA can break even in as little as 3.5 to 4 years. I want to look into the effect of increasing tax brackets over the years to see how much effect that has on the break even period. John Robertson (American Bell, Lincroft)