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...Your payment preference. If you qualify for 0% financing and can afford the monthly payments, that's the way to go. Even if you've always been a cash buyer, 0% financing is best because it allows you to invest the money until the payments are due. The decision isn't as clear cut if you need to stretch out the payments over four or five years. On a 48-month loan, you can generally figure that each percentage point you lop off the interest rate will save you $20.50 for every $1,000 that you borrow. You can head...
...long you keep a car. If you trade in every three years and log fewer than 15,000 miles annually, leasing is a good option. Residual values aren't so inflated as they were a few years ago, which means monthly payments are higher. But on a regional basis, there are some sporadic good deals. You're getting one, Spinella says, if you can find a monthly payment on a 36-month lease that's one-third lower than the monthly payment on a 60-month purchase...
...This wasn’t the case in England, where tenants had discovered that they could sell their lands to the Church and then rent them back tax-free—a practice banned in the 1217 reissue of Magna Carta.) Also, the University still plans to establish a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with the city to compensate it for some of the loss. But as long as Harvard doesn’t pay the full rate on its property, the resulting shortfall could leave Watertown in the lurch...
Canteen Vending, based in Charlotte, N.C., is busy retrofitting 50,000 machines nationwide to take payment from FreedomPay wands by the end of 2002. FORTUNE 500 companies such as Prudential Insurance and GM already have vending machines that accept payment by wand. And Yale students will get similar machines in their cafeterias next year...
Williamson calls Harvard and MIT “giant corpororate tax shelters” that should either pay higher payment in lieu of taxes or face losing their tax exempt status...