You can buy Swiss government bonds through europacific (europac.net). This is peter schiff's organization. Morgan Stanely also sells Swiss government bonds. However, Morgan Stanely is in trouble now, so maybe europacific is the best place. They use Pershing LLC (Bank of NY Mellon) to house customer money. From what I've read (by Martian Weiss) Pershing has 15.8 times the minimum capital required by the SEC. The only other brokerage firm that is higher is Edward Jones with 19.9. Morgan Stanely has only 3.21. This capital cusion gives brokerage firms the ability to withstand losses and other financial problems.
Swiss Stock Exchange (Zurich)
You can; 1) Buy cash and hold it - you will receive no interest 2) open a Swiss Franc account and buy and deposit there. You will receive interets, but it is virtually 0% (see 1)
Bonds are low interest loans to the Government
corporate bonds, federal government bonds, municipal bonds, asset-backed bonds, mortgage-based bonds, and foreign government bonds. For each of these categories, there are variations.
At the time of writing (15:30 on 08/02/2011) - 1 Israeli Shekel will buy you 0.26 Swiss Francs
Where you can purchase United States government bonds will depend on the type of bond you would like to purchase. Federal bonds are issued by the federal government, where as municipal bonds are issued by state government.
You can buy Australian Government Bonds directly from the Reserve Bank of Australia (the RBA). The RBA publishes a buy and sell rate for bonds each day, and small investors can buy at that price without the need for a broker. The Australian Government issues Fixed Coupon bonds (which are traditional fixed income bonds), and Capital Indexed bonds, which are inflation linked bonds where the capital amount of your investment increases with inflation each year. Alternatively, if you don't want to buy bonds directly you can invest through a bond fund. There are a number which specialise in low risk AAA debt such as Australian government bonds.
It is where the government puts out bonds that the public can buy and the government can use it to fund war the government later pays them back.
You can purchase Government bonds from www.treasurydirect.gov. Long term bonds for your grandchildren are best, as they have the highest yeld of return.
You had to buy bonds in order to show their loyalty and they cost a little bit of money but yeah they had to buy bonds! (:
they bought war bonds and what ever was left they spent
When people bought war bonds, they loaned the government money to help the war effort.