Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence earned her the first Pulitzer Prize for literature awarded to a woman. Published in 1920 but set in 1870s New York, the novel explores the labyrinth of high society in America's Gilded Age. The novel depicts the doomed marriage of Newland Archer and May Welland.
You Sell Your Bond Before It Matures & Interest Rates have gone down. You buy a 10 year U.S. Treasury Note with a face value of $1,000 and an interest rate of 4.26%. If you sell your bond before it matures and interest rates have dropped 2%, you will receive $1,118.54 (plus any interest paid before the sale).
Series I bonds bought from November 1, 2016 through April 30, 2017 will earn 2.76% interest during this six-month period. The rate for Series I bonds issued during this period is a combination of a fixed rate (fixed for the life of the bond) plus an adjustable rate (adjusted every six months) based on inflation.