Hey, everybody. Do what I did open a CD today for 12 to 17 months. Your choice, you can

get 5.15% interest or you can take Susie's lead and go for the jumbo. That's $75,000 minimum deposit

for 5.2%. How do they do it, Katie? Go to myelion.com slash ultimate. When do you want them to do it?

Today, today, today, today, today. There you go. Yeah, baby.

Okay, Susie, are you ready for today's podcast?

Oh, you bet I am because I'm unstoppable.

I'm unstoppable today. August 6, 2023. Welcome everybody to the women and money podcast and

everybody smart enough to listen. Susie, oh, here. Now, today's Susie school is going to be

about bonds 30 year treasury bonds to be exact. So get out your Susie notebooks because I really

want you to take notes and listen closely to this Susie school because this is an important

concept that you need to understand. Now, let's start very simply with what is a bond? A bond

is a debt instrument. That simply means you are lending an entity your money for a specific

period of time. And they pay you an interest rate on that money for the entire time

until they pay you back hopefully the amount that you lent them on a specific date in the

future, which is known as the maturity date. For this Susie school, as I said when I first started,

we are simply focusing on treasuries that are issued by the United States government,

which in theory means you are lending the United States government money. They need money to

pay their bills. And that money is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States

government making them supposedly the safest debt instrument that you can buy. Why did I say

supposedly? Because we have to admit, don't we? They didn't feel so safe just a bit ago when the

debt ceiling was in question. And that's going to come up again in just October. So we will see

what happens at that time. But still they are supposedly the safest debt instrument that you

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