<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by IfItAintBoeing:
If I remember correctly, US Treasury has set a minimum rate of 4% on EE [Patriot] bonds.</font>
EE's issued after May 1997 are guaranteed to reach face value after 17 years. This equates to an annualized yield of 4.16%, the seventeenth root of 2 (1.04162).