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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: bighairymike ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: S&P500 valuations
Date: 02/14/23 7:44 PM
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Anybody here have experience using Vanguard Brokerage Services to buy T-Bills I have used Vanguard to buy and sell Indiv stocks, ETFs and mutual funds for 30 plus years but haven't seen any option anywhere to purchase a T-bill.

Maybe it trades like a stock, I place a market order for 100 shares of 52 week Treasury Bills and that order fills at the next auction for a cost of the $100,000 face less the discount rate representing the current auction's interest rate. All that would be fine provided the 52 week T-Bill has a symbol that I can buy 100 of. But I can't seem to find that "symbol" so there must be some other mechanism.

I understand I could open a Treasury Direct Account and that would fine for my taxable investments. But I also would like to buy within my Roth. Reading on Treasury Direct web site, I didn't see an option for them to be a Roth Custodian. I looked on Vanguards website at it implies it can be done but doesn't explain how. Hence my question to board. TIA for any info.
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