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To: SkyPilot
demanding a certain percentage of individual retirement savings must be invested in U.S. Treasury bonds, it is a first step in that direction. ...

All the more reason to now demanding we return to coupon bonds.


8 posted on 02/14/2014 6:03:33 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: C210N

I sell bonds. I can get you coupon bonds. Perhaps you mean the return to physical bearer bonds? The last were issued in 1981 or 1982. There are some still out there that had super long maturities.


17 posted on 02/14/2014 6:31:34 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: C210N
All the more reason to now demanding we return to coupon bonds

The fundamental defects of paper as money (rather than as a symbol of, or receipt for, money) cannot be fixed.

35 posted on 02/14/2014 7:02:02 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. E)
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