What are treasury bonds? What is a treasury Note?

Question

What are they and what are the risks?

of bonds, notes and municipals?

Answer 1

A treasury bond is a bond with a maturity more than 10 years w/ a fixed interest rate paid yearly or semi-yearly.

A treasury note has a maturity between 1 to 10 years w/ a fixed interest rate.

Both have no risks in that they are backed by the U.S. government. They are basically debt given to the government in the form of IOUs.

If you want to purchase them they can bought online @ TreasuryDirect. Or for municipals FMSbonds.com