Treasury Bills
Treasury Notes
Treasury Bonds
Series EE and I Savings Bonds
Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS)作者: not4weak 时间: 2017-3-17 17:10
Before 5 years, forfeit 3 most recent months' interest
After 5 years, no penalty
Who will buy EE and I? What is the point?作者: qzhou3 时间: 2017-3-18 20:46
本帖最后由 qzhou3 于 2017-3-18 21:03 编辑
I bought I-bonds in 2003 (not sure of the year now). Back then the interest was around 6%. I bought 6000, they gave me 6 1k certificates. Later I added more and changed them to online notes. I sold them in 2011 when I needed money to buy my house.
It was fed tax free. I remember I had a total of 20K+ I-bonds and received 2000+ interests (maybe 2600, don't remember now).
Since the inflation was low and the interest was very low in later years。 没吸引力了作者: not4weak 时间: 2017-3-19 18:35
It is not good time to buy any long term bonds since interest will be up year by year and the values of the bonds in your hand will go down.作者: not4weak 时间: 2017-3-20 10:48
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EE and I 不同吧?作者: test2012 时间: 2017-3-20 22:23