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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 899890, member: 3011&quot;]You do realize that E bonds are no longer sold.&nbsp; So it is incorrect for you to suggest that someone can buy what is no longer sold, or earn a rate of interest on savings bonds that is no longer available.&nbsp; I just think your post was wrong and misleading to someone asking for investment advice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit:&nbsp; I also found the attached info on E bonds.&nbsp; They never doubled in 10 years.&nbsp; They were issued at 75% of face value and matured in 10 years.&nbsp; They were discontinued after 1980.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Interest Rules</p><p>Series E Savings Bonds are accrual bonds that were issued at 75 percent of the face amount. Interest is paid at redemption as part of the current redemption value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Active, unredeemed Series E bonds accrue interest at a market-based yield or the applicable guaranteed minimum investment yield, whichever is greater.</p><p><br /></p><p>A guaranteed minimum investment yield in effect at the start of an original or extended maturity period is guaranteed to the end of that original or extended maturity period.</p><p><br /></p><p>The guaranteed minimum investment yield for Series E bonds is 4 percent, compounded semiannually, beginning with extended maturity periods starting on or after March 1, 1993, unless the guaranteed minimum is changed prior to the beginning of an extended maturity period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maturity Rules and Periods</p><p>Originally issued for a fixed term of 10 years, E bonds were granted interest extensions that brought their interest-bearing lives to 30 or 40 years, dependent upon the issue date of the bond.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some Series E bonds continue to earn interest today, although the last E bonds will stop earning interest in 2010.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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