{"id":6937,"date":"2022-01-29T12:14:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T20:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/?p=6937"},"modified":"2022-02-07T15:36:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T23:36:21","slug":"ibond-7-12-from-treasurydirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/ibond-7-12-from-treasurydirect.html","title":{"rendered":"iBond 7.12% From TreasuryDirect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>\u00a0 \u00a0To keep up with inflation, we invest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasurydirect.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TreasuryDirect iBond<\/a> which yields 7.12% this period. Although it limits only $10,000 a year for any SS, we can still buy each year. The best is to buy with many different amounts instead of one\u00a0lump-sum $10k because we can&#8217;t sell the bond in parts. This bond is for 5 years without penalty and after 1 year we can redeem although we would lose some interests. Regardless, this iBond would beat any CDs currently offered at any bank.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>This I bond is the same as 529 account for school, if we use the money for school, we don&#8217;t have to pay tax on the interests. This iBond has no state tax on interests, just Federal. \u00a0This bond is compounded semi-anually therefore we would double our investment in 15 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ibond interest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/ibond_interest.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/ibond_interest-200x88.png\" alt=\"iBond Interest\" width=\"200\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"ibond term\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/ibond_term.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/ibond_term-200x82.png\" alt=\"iBond Term\" width=\"200\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0To keep up with inflation, we invest in TreasuryDirect iBond which yields 7.12% this period. Although it limits only $10,000 a year for any SS, we can still buy each year. The best is to buy with many different amounts instead of one\u00a0lump-sum $10k because we can&#8217;t sell the bond in parts. This bond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/ibond-7-12-from-treasurydirect.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,5],"tags":[1251,1252],"class_list":["post-6937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-being-frugal","category-finance","category-investing","tag-ibond","tag-treasurydirect"],"views":134,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6956,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions\/6956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}