This holiday season is your last chance to stop by the bank and buy a paper savings bond, either for yourself or your loved ones.
Starting next year, you'll no longer be able to buy paper savings bonds at banks and other financial institutions.
You've probably heard about the country's giant debt load - $12 trillion and rising.
The U.S. government is making a mint off of birthdays, bar mitzvahs and graduations: About $13 billion in savings bonds have matured but not yet been redeemed.
Money Magazine: Money Helpsupdated: Fri Jan 20 2006 10:39:00
The Great Savings Bond Treasury Hunt
Money Magazine: Treasury Directupdated: Tue Jul 01 2003 00:01:00
Now you can buy Series EE savings bonds electronically via automatic debit on www.treasurydirect.gov, a website run by the Bureau of the Public Debt. It's part of a cost-cutting effort by the Treas...
Q. My brother and I are beneficiaries of my father's IRA. Right now it's in a savings bank CD worth about $75,000. Can the IRA be divided into two separate accounts, and must we keep it where it is...
Money Magazine: Ask e-Moneyupdated: Sun Oct 01 2000 00:01:00
Q. Is there a website posting daily U.S. Treasury bond, note and bill prices? Andrew Pitonvak a_pitonvak@yahoo.com
Some 35,000 filing cabinets (including the ones at left) containing records of $350 billion in federal employee retirement benefits are literally buried in Boyers, Pa. The facility is officially na...
Treasury bills, which are sold in maturities of three months, six months and one year, are now paying 3.58% to 4.14% -- about 30% more than the average short-term bank CD (see the table on page 37)...
With nearly twice as many mutual funds as there are stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, you'd think there'd be a fund to satisfy every need. Not always. Sometimes close cousins of mutual funds -...
-- The good points of Series EE savings bonds are well known: backed by the U.S. government, they are risk-free, inexpensive and easy to buy. The price of this safety and convenience is also well k...
March ended in a sell-off as the renewed weakness of the U.S. dollar helped propel interest rates higher. The Dow Jones industrial average, for example, was down 4% for the month, to close at 1988....
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