NPR.

This is the Anticative from Planet Money.

I'm Darian Woods.

And I'm Whalen Wong.

With inflation at a 40 year high, people with the ability to save or invest are looking

for good places to park their money.

And the options, frankly, are not looking that inspired right now.

Yeah, I mean, at least if you look at the last fun in the six months in this talk market,

it is a bit of a blood bath out there.

Yeah.

And even a high yield savings account is paying under 1%.

Not exactly something to shout from the rooftops.

But there is one security that is virtually risk-free and pays a guaranteed return of,

are you ready for this?

9.62%.

It's pretty high in the stay-in-edge.

And it's called the Series I Savings Bond or the I Bond for short.

And it's kind of this obscure underdog of the financial world.

Like think about the trends in finance.

When the middle of a crypto craze last year, it was day trading and meme stocks.

Just take the opposite of that.

Simple, predictable, blandness.

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