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US Treasury Series I Savings Bonds Inflation Rate Earnings (Nov '21 - April '22)

(Limit $10K/Year Per Person)

7.12% Interest

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U.S, Government Treasury is currently offering 7.12% Interest Rate in combined Fixed + Inflation Rate Earnings valid on newly issued Series I Savings Bonds purchased from November 2021 through April 2022. Limit of $10,000 / year in interest earnings per person.

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About this offer:
  • How do I buy a Series I bond?
  • What is a Series I bond? (source)
  • "A savings bond that earns interest based on combining a fixed rate and an inflation rate."
  • You may use Series I bonds to:
    • Save in a low-risk product that helps protect your savings from inflation
    • Supplement your retirement income
    • Give as a gift
    • Pay for education
    • Click here for more information about Series I Bonds
  • What interest does a Series I bond earn? (source)
    • A combination of a fixed rate that stays the same for the life of the bond and an inflation rate that is set twice a year.
    • For bonds issued from November 2021 through April 2022, the combined rate is 7.12%

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Note: This popular deal is still available.

U.S, Government Treasury is currently offering 7.12% Interest Rate in combined Fixed + Inflation Rate Earnings valid on newly issued Series I Savings Bonds purchased from November 2021 through April 2022. Limit of $10,000 / year in interest earnings per person.

Thanks to community member dn90003 for sharing this offer.

About this offer:
  • How do I buy a Series I bond?
  • What is a Series I bond? (source)
  • "A savings bond that earns interest based on combining a fixed rate and an inflation rate."
  • You may use Series I bonds to:
    • Save in a low-risk product that helps protect your savings from inflation
    • Supplement your retirement income
    • Give as a gift
    • Pay for education
    • Click here for more information about Series I Bonds
  • What interest does a Series I bond earn? (source)
    • A combination of a fixed rate that stays the same for the life of the bond and an inflation rate that is set twice a year.
    • For bonds issued from November 2021 through April 2022, the combined rate is 7.12%

Editor's Notes

Written by BostonGirl
Refer to the forum thread here for more information and details.

Original Post

Written by dn90003

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Looks tempting. But these are only rated for inflation as fixed rate is 0%. Once inflation is back down, your rate will go down with it.
In case you're wondering, here's how the rate is computed:
Composite rate =
No, these are govt bonds. They stay in the treasury. I bonds are based on the rate of inflation. They have a fixed rate plus the current rate of inflation. Inflation goes up, you earn more. It was 3.54%. Rates went up on 11/1. To realize the full benefit you need to buy before the rates change on 5/1 and 11/1. No fees or penalties. Hold for a min.of a year. If you cash out in less than 5 years you forfeit 3 months interest. After 5 years, you don't pay anything. You can only buy $10k/yr and then up to an additional $5k if purchased directly from your tax refund.
I bought $10k in denominations of 2,3, 5 so if I want to cash out I can do it in chunks instead of having to cash out $10k.: Better than any CD or bank rate if you want to stay in cash.
By the way, using your tax refund to purchase bonds won't count toward your $10k yearly limit.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/in...eature.htm

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abstractj
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Is the $10k limit based on calendar year? Meaning I can buy $10k now and then another $10k comes 1/2022?
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langjie
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Quote from abstractj :
Is the $10k limit based on calendar year? Meaning I can buy $10k now and then another $10k comes 1/2022?
that's my understanding

also it's per person, so if you have kids you can open it in their name as well
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DogAndPony
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Quote from abstractj :
Is the $10k limit based on calendar year? Meaning I can buy $10k now and then another $10k comes 1/2022?
yep, that's my plan
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sd8384
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Quote from abstractj :
Is the $10k limit based on calendar year? Meaning I can buy $10k now and then another $10k comes 1/2022?
Yes that is correct and I believe you can do total $20k in calendar year if you are married and file jointly.
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Quote from IndiaPaleAle :
Among all the baseless assertions you've made the irony is 'the money that went directly to the public' is more likely the leading contributor to current inflation spike, money supply to banks for loans assuredly is not. Thank you for the humor this morning, I won't be responding to your ReSeArCH.

If you only knew that banks lend out money at a multiple of what they take in as reserves. So, when they get cheap government money they can lend out 2x-3x of that as loans thus the huge inflation.
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Quote from NICK777 :
He is wrong, but silver and gold are both down in the last 30 days, the last 6 months, and the last year, despite rampant inflation. https://goldprice.org/
That's because the stock market is absorbing the capital that would have otherwise gone to gold. Money goes where the higher returns are. When you see gold/silver go up you will know the smart money knows the gravy train is over in the stock market.
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publicpersona
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Quote from sd8384 :
Yes that is correct and I believe you can do total $20k in calendar year if you are married and file jointly.
It is $10K per person, having nothing to do with your tax filing status.

Then in addition, you can select up to $5K of a tax refund per return (not per person) to buy I-Bonds.
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Quote from Kissimmeegal :
Treasury Direct sucks. When my husband of 35 years died, they made me jump through hoops to get his money out, even though I had the Judges signed order granting me title to the funds and my husband's death certificate. Had to get my lawyer to help, even though at the time I could ill afford to put out money to pay attorney fees. Not only that, it took them two months to finally release the funds.
Good luck on getting the money back out if you need it.
Thx for the heads up but couldn't you have sent the money to the linked bank account ? If that was shared between the two of you, TD would be none the wiser.
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tencuhtli
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Quote from raf1919 :
not sure who is more annoying.. a crypto owner or cross fitter.
They are the new cross fitters
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Quote from shortprong :
And if they continue to print money, the value of existing money drops ..... eventually to about zero.

One hundred trillion dollars—that's 100,000,000,000,000—is the largest denomination of currency ever issued. In Zimbabwe, from 2007 to 2008, the local legal tender lost more than 99.9 percent of its value (Hanke 2008).
This cannot happen to USD as long as it is the default currency used for oil trading. Maybe in another 10+ years it could happen.
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WiseLeopard609
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On the surface, the deal seems fantastic but...

I am looking at historical rates over the past 5 years. The average seems to be around 2.5% a year, which isn't horrible if you are over 65 and need to park your money somewhere super safe.

Then again if you invested in Amazon 5 years ago, your investment would be worth 400% more, Walmart 200%, Bitcoin 300%.

If you are under 50, you are literally throwing money away investing in treasuries because of the time value of money. You aren't going to be wealthy turning $700 a year on $10,000.

If you believe the stock market is going to crash (it could), you should be keeping your money available, so you can buy stocks at the bottom.
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Quote from raf1919 :
not sure who is more annoying.. a crypto owner or cross fitter.
That would be crypto, vegan, cross fit, ultra runners, and they are real.
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DrRad
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Not bad. Beats a HY savings account and earnings are exempt from state or local taxes. Too many of y'all giving unsolicited (and useless) financial advice or don't understand diversification of assets. nod
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Quote from techie333 :
Live a little....
Voyager offering 9% on USD coin and anchor protocol offering 20% on UST albeit a bit harder because you have to learn to convert dollars to UST using a middle man. Think there's a direct conversion defi launching soon
I'd be very weary of UST, Terra CEO got served papers at the top of an escalator at an event
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