Bonds Interest Rate

US government bonds that mature within 1 to 3 years with a yield of at least 4% per annum?

I would like to invest in US government bonds directly (only government bond index linked) and without involving securities that are indirectly related to US government bonds but only to the government. When I was looking for government bonds, all I could find were other kinds of securities such as mutual funds which invest in government bonds as well as etf's and etns which invest in government bonds, but not the government bonds themselves. I am not interested in any other kinds of securities that are indirectly related to government bonds, but only in buying government bonds themselves. The bottom line is, what is the trade symbols (Identification numbers) of the government bonds themselves ? I am looking for US government bonds that mature within 1 to 3 years with a yield of at least 4% per annual with a coupon. Can you please refer me to a list of trading symbols (Identification numbers) of Consumer-Price-Index linked US government bonds bearing a fixed interest of at least 4% per annual? regards

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1. You should be able to find everything you're looking for on the website of the US Treasury Department. They sell bonds directly. I have never bought any myself. So I can answer about the rates. But it should all be on this website. http://www.treasurydirect.gov/ Now you've got me curious. I'm going to look into it too. Might be a good place to stash a bit of cash for a couple of years. But I'm concerned that we'll see some serious inflation once we pull out of the current slump, since the government it starting to print cash in a big way. Inflation is bad news for bond holders.
2. US Government bonds are notorious for being very very low in yield often below the actual inflation rate. (your money actually LOSES value) As such i would advise you against them. they are however very very safe. If you are worried and are pulling out of the stock market as i suspect you may be, i would suggest against that because the market will bounce back just as it did several years ago.(the reason i believe the great deppression or even nixon stagflation will not occur is because the unemployment rates and inflation rates are not NEARLY as bad. for example 30's....Nixon..Now.....Naturally healthy economy Unemp..25%....15%....6.8%....4.0% Inflation..xxx....18%....4.0%....2.0-3.0% .................................. ^ ..............This means your invest ment will net you ...... exactly $0 earnings if the inflation rate doesn't change ALSO the crash of the stockmarket was not nearly as bad as the 20's if you are worried about which stocks to invest in, there are many that simply represent the dow jones average and give dividends and grow as such. these will grow and fall with the dow jones, which has (on average) only grown by leaps and bounds.