barrett, I share your enthusiasm for savings bonds! 1. Paper savings bonds have a special attraction for me, even though it is pretty clear the US Treasury would simply like to get rid of them. They don’t sell paper EE bonds any more, but you can still get $5,000 in paper I bonds as part of your ann...

Thanks for the refresher/reminder, jhogue! For some reason I thought the doubling occurred at 17 years ??? EDIT: It may be because they're pre-2005 . I bought my first EE bonds (and I bonds) around the year 2000 at my dad's suggestion. I was out of work for a while and the purchase was a substitute...

jhogue - thanks for the reply and taking the time to dig up those links to previous discussion on I and EE bonds. It would be interesting to know if the participants in that discussion are still around and if their views and enthusiasm have changed given the real rates for these products have sunk ...

jhogue - thanks for the reply and taking the time to dig up those links to previous discussion on I and EE bonds. It would be interesting to know if the participants in that discussion are still around and if their views and enthusiasm have changed given the real rates for these products have sunk ...

Dear fellow PP’ers, Long term lurker (since 2013) here. I have learned a great deal about investment and how to implement Harry Browne’s Permanent Portfolio by reading the posts of so many on this forum. Thank you all. Recently, I have been studying past threads on the role of US savings bonds in th...