Description:  Should you take out a new mortgage — or home equity line of credit — and spend the money buying stocks?

Source:  Marketwatch.com

Date: 09/14/2011

Link:  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/can-stocks-pay-your-mortgage-2011-09-14?pagenumber=1

Questions for discussion:

• Summarize the logic of the investing strategy presented in this report.
• What are the risks and advantages for an individual?
• Would you advise this strategy to an investor?
• How would a bump up in interest rates likely affect investors’ portfolios who had undertaken this strategy?