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Purchase 50 three yr government bonds. Each bond has a face value of $1000 and pays half-yearly coupons of $32. The bonds are selling at par. What is the future value if the coupons are revinvested at the same rate as the bonds yield?

Using the Financial Calculator :

Present Value = 1000 , interest = 0 , Payment = 32 , periods = 6

Future Value = 1,192 < for each Bond .. :)

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Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation $0.99 Forget the stereotypes. Today’s Japanese women are shattering them — breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. Shopping-crazed schoolgirls in Hello Kitty costumes and the Harajuku girls Gwen Stefani helped make so popular have grabbed the media’s attention. But as critically acclaimed author Veronica Chambers has discovered through years of returning to Japan and interviewing Japanese women, the more interesting story is that of the legions of everyday women — from the office suites to radio and TV studios to the worlds of art and fashion and on to the halls of government — who have kicked off a revolution in their country. Japanese men hardly know what has hit them. In a single generation, women in Japan have rewritten the rules in both the bedroom and the boardroom. Not a day goes by in Japan that a powerful woman doesn’t make the front page of the newspapers. In the face of still-fierce sexism, a new breed of women is breaking through the “rice paper ceiling” of Japan’s salary-man dominated corporate culture. The women are traveling the world — while the men stay at home — and returning with a cosmopolitan sophistication that is injecting an edgy, stylish internationalism into Japanese life. So many women are happily delaying marriage into their thirties — labeled “losing dogs” and yet loving their liberated lives — that the country’s birth rate is in crisis. With her keen eye for all facets of Japanese life, Veronica Chambers travels through the exciting world of Japan’s new modern women to introduce these “kickboxing geishas” and the stories of their lives: the wildly popular young hip-hop DJ; the TV chef who is also a government minister; the entrepreneur who founded a market research firm specializing in charting the tastes of the teenage girls driving the country’s GNC — “gross national cool”; and the Osaka assembly-woman who came out publicly as a lesbian — the

Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation By Veronica Chambers $16.99 Forget the stereotypes. Today’s Japanese women are shattering them — breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. Shopping-crazed schoolgirls in Hello Kitty costumes and the Harajuku girls Gwen Stefani helped make so popular have grabbed the media’s attention. But as critically acclaimed author Veronica Chambers has discovered through years of returning to Japan and interviewing Japanese women, the more interesting story is that of the legions of everyday women — from the office suites to radio and TV studios to the worlds of art and fashion and on to the halls of government — who have kicked off a revolution in their country. <P>Japanese men hardly know what has hit them. In a single generation, women in Japan have rewritten the rules in both the bedroom and the boardroom. Not a day goes by in Japan that a powerful woman doesn’t make the front page of the newspapers. In the face of still-fierce sexism, a new breed of women is breaking through the “rice paper ceiling” of Japan’s salary-man dominated corporate culture. The women are traveling the world — while the men stay at home — and returning with a cosmopolitan sophistication that is injecting an edgy, stylish internationalism into Japanese life. So many women are happily delaying marriage into their thirties — labeled “losing dogs” and yet loving their liberated lives — that the country’s birth rate is in crisis. <P>With her keen eye for all facets of Japanese life, Veronica Chambers travels through the exciting world of Japan’s new modern women to introduce these “kickboxing geishas” and the stories of their lives: the wildly popular young hip-hop DJ; the TV chef who is also a government minister; the entrepreneur who founded a market research firm specializing in charting the tastes of the teenage girls driving the country’s GNC — “gross national cool”; and the Osaka assembly-woman who came out publicly as a lesbian — the first openly gay politician in the country. <P>

Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation By Veronica Chambers $18.99 Forget the stereotypes. Today’s Japanese women are shattering them — breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. Shopping-crazed schoolgirls in Hello Kitty costumes and the Harajuku girls Gwen Stefani helped make so popular have grabbed the media’s attention. But as critically acclaimed author Veronica Chambers has discovered through years of returning to Japan and interviewing Japanese women, the more interesting story is that of the legions of everyday women — from the office suites to radio and TV studios to the worlds of art and fashion and on to the halls of government — who have kicked off a revolution in their country. <P>Japanese men hardly know what has hit them. In a single generation, women in Japan have rewritten the rules in both the bedroom and the boardroom. Not a day goes by in Japan that a powerful woman doesn’t make the front page of the newspapers. In the face of still-fierce sexism, a new breed of women is breaking through the “rice paper ceiling” of Japan’s salary-man dominated corporate culture. The women are traveling the world — while the men stay at home — and returning with a cosmopolitan sophistication that is injecting an edgy, stylish internationalism into Japanese life. So many women are happily delaying marriage into their thirties — labeled “losing dogs” and yet loving their liberated lives — that the country’s birth rate is in crisis. <P>With her keen eye for all facets of Japanese life, Veronica Chambers travels through the exciting world of Japan’s new modern women to introduce these “kickboxing geishas” and the stories of their lives: the wildly popular young hip-hop DJ; the TV chef who is also a government minister; the entrepreneur who founded a market research firm specializing in charting the tastes of the teenage girls driving the country’s GNC — “gross national cool”; and the Osaka assembly-woman who came out publicly as a lesbian — the first openly gay politician in the country. <P>

Learning, Earning and Investing: High School $19.95 Give Your High School Students a Competitive Financial Advantage With this comprehensive investment education curriculum, you’ll introduce your students to the ins-and-outs of long-term investing. They’ll take a critical look at investment opportunities mutual funds, stocks, bonds, and more and uncover strategies for building lasting wealth. Wealth Building in Your Classroom: Activity-based Lessons Are the Secret After introducing key concepts, you’ll reinforce them with engaging hands-on activities: simulations, role-playing, even a “financial bee”. By providing a realistic connection to the market economy, your students will quickly master 4 essential themes: #1: The Basics• Should your students save?• What Is a Stock? Bond? Mutual Fund?• How do your students buy and sell securities? #2: The Markets• What is a stock market?• What role do financial institutions play in the economy… and your students’ lives?• Do your students understand the “language” of the markets? #3: Financial Planning• How do your students build long-term wealth?• Should your students use credit?• What are the best ways to research companies #4: The Markets & the Economy• How are stock prices determined?• What role does government play in the market?• Can your student forecast the future? A Great Supplement to Your Stock Market Simulations These lesson plans are priceless if you’re using the Stock Market GameTM or Stock Market SimulationTM,. You’ll turn to “Learning, Earning and Investing” year-after-year to present key background material that gives your students a deeper appreciation of theStock Market Simulations. Math Teachers: “Learning, Earning and Investing” Is Packed With Practical Math Lessons Do you students ask you “why do we need to know this stuff”? With these no-nonsense lessons, you’ll introduce your students to the world of investing and still meet NCTM

Naked Guide to Bonds: What You Need to Know–Stripped Down to the Bare Essentials $29.95 Professional investors have long understood the importance of bonds in a successful portfolio strategy. Now you can too. That’s because Wall Street bond expert Michael Brandes takes a unique approach to this complex subject–he makes it simple. In Naked Guide to Bonds: What You Need to Know–Stripped Down to the Bare Essentials, technical jargon and complicated subject matter are translated into a straightforward, easy-to-read style with plenty of examples. What’s more, rather than writing an all-inclusive book on the bond market, Brandes uses his expertise to eliminate the information that is not relevant to individual investors. The result is a practical and succinct guide that empowers you to make informed investment decisions.Naked Guide to Bonds is written so that each chapter builds upon the information that precedes it–that way you’ll never be thrown for a loop. It begins with basic questions such as: Who issues bonds, and why? And how are bonds bought and sold? Then you’ll learn about the structure of these securities and the characteristics that distinguish them from stocks.Once you’re armed with the fundamentals, you’ll discover how inflation, interest rates, and changes in the economy impact bond prices. Naked Guide to Bonds also provides insights into different types of bonds, including those issued by the U.S. government and its agencies, municipalities, corporations, and international issuers. Most importantly, you’ll understand how to identify the bonds that are appropriate for you. In the final sections, you’ll determine how to: Assess your risk profile and set goals Construct a portfolio that meets your objectivesImplement a customized strategy Evaluate individual bonds and mutual fundsMonitor and maintain your portfolioAvoid the most common mistakesFilled with helpful charts and informative "Bare Essential" summary points at the

One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe $27.95 The Untold History of America’s First Debt and its Relevance in Today’s Economy“Wright tackles the thorny question of what makes countries wealthy through the lens of a U.S. addiction: government indebtedness.”-Simon Constable, TheStreet.com“Think that our burgeoning national debt is something new? We’ve been down this road before. One Nation Under Debt traces the roots of today’s looming fiscal crisis back to the birth of the republic and shows how the founding fathers averted financial Armageddon.”-William Bernstein“This is economic history both high and low-from Alexander Hamilton, the wizard who put America’s finances in order, to the men and women who secured America’s future by buying its bonds.”-Richard Brookhiser“This book is magnetic. Wright regales us with the bankers and merchants, slaveholders and bondholders, and pen-named politicians of the Early Republic.”-James W. Mueller, Ph.D., Chief Historian, Independence National Historical Park”If I could write like Wright, I would be thrilled. Some passages in the book are stunning—almost poetic. For anyone interested in the evolution of the U.S. economy and its early financial system, the first six chapters of this book are essential. Wright makes his point: under skilled management (e.g., Hamilton), debt is good for deepening capital markets, but incurred excessively to finance wars or inappropriate government expenditures, it can eventually prove disastrous.”-Richard Vietor, Harvard Business School, Journal of American HistoryRobert E. Wright is the Rudy and Marlyn Nef Family Chair of Political Economy in the Division of Social Sciences at Augustana College and is a curator for the Museum of American Finance. He is the author of scores of articles, entries, reviews, and chapters, and has authored or coauthored nine books. Wright has written for Barron’s, the Chronicle of Higher

One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe $27.95 The Untold History of America’s First Debt and its Relevance in Today’s Economy“Wright tackles the thorny question of what makes countries wealthy through the lens of a U.S. addiction: government indebtedness.”-Simon Constable, TheStreet.com“Think that our burgeoning national debt is something new? We’ve been down this road before. One Nation Under Debt traces the roots of today’s looming fiscal crisis back to the birth of the republic and shows how the founding fathers averted financial Armageddon.”-William Bernstein“This is economic history both high and low-from Alexander Hamilton, the wizard who put America’s finances in order, to the men and women who secured America’s future by buying its bonds.”-Richard Brookhiser“This book is magnetic. Wright regales us with the bankers and merchants, slaveholders and bondholders, and pen-named politicians of the Early Republic.”-James W. Mueller, Ph.D., Chief Historian, Independence National Historical Park”If I could write like Wright, I would be thrilled. Some passages in the book are stunning—almost poetic. For anyone interested in the evolution of the U.S. economy and its early financial system, the first six chapters of this book are essential. Wright makes his point: under skilled management (e.g., Hamilton), debt is good for deepening capital markets, but incurred excessively to finance wars or inappropriate government expenditures, it can eventually prove disastrous.”-Richard Vietor, Harvard Business School, Journal of American HistoryRobert E. Wright is the Rudy and Marlyn Nef Family Chair of Political Economy in the Division of Social Sciences at Augustana College and is a curator for the Museum of American Finance. He is the author of scores of articles, entries, reviews, and chapters, and has authored or coauthored nine books. Wright has written for Barron’s, the Chronicle of Higher

Retire Rich with Your Roth IRA, Roth 401(k), and Roth 403(b): Investment Strategies for Your Roth IRA Explained Simply $24.95 When the Roth IRA was introduced in the 1990s it was widely hailed as a great way for individuals to increase their retirement holdings by paying the taxes before the money was invested into their IRA accounts. In 2006, the Roth IRA was made permanent by the Pension Protection Plan along with the increased contribution limits. Today, the Roth family of retirement options is a great way for anyone to start putting away money for their future without worrying about paying taxes on their money more than once. However, for your Roth IRA or Roth 401(k) to effectively grow and provide for you when you reach retirement, you need to understand how to manage your investments and fully take advantage of this popular method of saving.This book is written for the everyday investor who already has a Roth IRA and desires more knowledge or for the individual seriously considering a Roth account.  Those who want to put away money so they can retire with enough to be well protected and prepared for anything will benefit from the extensive research on these investments and the helpful case studies distributed throughout the book. You will learn why the federal government enacted the new Roth rules in the mid-1990s, what your different Roth options are and all the ways you can invest the money—from stocks and real estate to bonds and mutual funds. You will learn the fundamental basics of investing in an IRA and how to start making investment choices, from researching companies and funds to settling into a long term investm ent. You will learn how to maintain a positive working relationship with your administrator and what you will need to do to make your tax payments to the IRS. Top financial experts who specialize in Roth IRAs have been consulted and their expertise compiled here to provide you with the necessary information you need to learn how to effectively invest in your retirement accounts. You will learn how to put limits on your investments and to

Siblings in Adoption and Foster Care: Traumatic Separations and Honored Connections $49.95 Normally, our relationships with our brothers and sisters are the longest relationships in our lives, outlasting time with our parents, and most marriages today. The sibling relationship is emotionally powerful and critically important, giving us a sense of continuity throughout life. So what happens when a child loses contact not only with his or her parents, but with siblings too? That is what happens in thousands of cases each year inside the child welfare system. Children are surrendered by parents – or taken by the government – and placed in the foster care system. There, they are often separated and sent to different foster families, or adopted by different couples. In this work, a team of top experts details for us how this added separation futher traumatizes children. This stellar team of internationally known researchers – some of whom are themselves adoptees – shares with us hard, poignant, and personal insights, as well as ways we might act to solve this widespread problem.Contributors address not only the importance of nurturing sibling bonds and mental health strategies to support those relationships, but also the legal rights of siblings to be together, as well as issues in international adoptions. Emerging and standing programs to encourage and facilitate adoptions that keep siblings together are featured, as are programs that at least enable them to stay in contact.

The Bond’s Revenge: A Guide to Thriving in the Bond Market $19.95 There are many questions concerning buying and selling in the bond market ,and through the affable characters Stewart and Angelo, answers are provided. Traveling to Italy to visit Angelo—an expert in the market who has made a fortune in bonds—Stewart learns about government bonds, offshore bond investing, and the difference between equity and debt securities. He also learns how the corporate bond market operates and how, most importantly, he can profit from that market. Effectively structuring the book around the Socratic method, the author illustrates what a real investor can hope to earn in the securities markets while also explaining the benefits of the buy and hold strategy used by major investing institutions.

The Hedge Fund Fraud Casebook (Wiley Finance Series) $55.18 The James Bonds of the marketplace, hedge funds are less encumbered by government regulation, less trans-parent to investors, play more complex games, take bigger risks, and capture the public imagination in a way that their lesser counterparts have difficulty approaching. These unique features have resulted in an increasing scale of losses due to fraud, with no corresponding increases in safeguards available for investors.Devoted to this little-researched yet increasingly crucial area, The Hedge Fund Fraud Casebook thoroughly informs those who seek to risk their capital on a rational basis and want to better understand some of the outer reaches of what constitutes rational risk.Divided into two parts, this fascinating look at deception in the hedge fund world begins with a broad appraisal of the context of fraud and of hedge funds, and then presents a compendium of 100 chronologically arranged “cases” beginning with the first known fraud in a hedge fund. It covers:The historic roots of prohibitions against fraudAssumptions regarding events and uncertainties in the mortality of hedge fundsUncertainties and events within the law enforcement systemEach involving a hedge fund participant and a formal allegation of fraud, all of the cases have been disposed within U.S. jurisdictions: civil, criminal, or administrative. With an identical page format of facts, charts, tables, and summarized texts provided for each case for easy cross-comparisons, The Hedge Fund Fraud Casebook is the first extensive book completely dedicated to this subject. It draws important conclusions as to the nature of fraud in the hedge fund industry, its reasons, its methods, the outcomes, and convincing insights into ways to prevent or predict the crime in advance.

The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha $1.99 Neela Keetham and her brother Navi yearn to escape their hometown of Marasaw. Living with their grandmother after their mother had left years before to find work abroad, they struggle against the poverty and limited opportunities available in Marasaw. Navi hopes to prosper from his talent as a math prodigy, while Neela constantly battles to find some talent to rival her brother’s. Despite the support of their grandmother and friends, both Navi and Neela find that escaping their circumstances, much less their past, is no easy task. The siblings make their separate ways out of Marasaw, but each must make sacrifices and damaging compromises along the way. They also learn dark and dangerous truths about each other, driving them apart in fear and anger.    As Navi and Neela work tirelessly to create new lives for themselves, the outside world, far from being a paradise, is revealed as more punishing and unfair than the world they left behind. Navi wins a prestigious government internship, but his success ironically snuffs out the opportunity for a lasting, loving relationship with a fellow intern. On the strength of rumours and the word of her boyfriend Jaroon, Neela daringly makes her way to a resort town hidden in the rainforest to work as a teacher, only to find that this “Eden,” and Jaroon, are not what they seem.  Chastened and wiser for their experiences, Neela and then Navi are both forced by circumstances to return home. The disappearance of Neela’s daughter, Seetha, leads them back to each other and into the complex and mysterious bonds of family. To save Seetha, Neela and Navi must attempt to heal their damaged relationship and along the way they discover that in the cruel and imperfect world in which they live, hope may still prevail.

The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha $12.99 Neela Keetham and her brother Navi yearn to escape their hometown of Marasaw. Living with their grandmother after their mother had left years before to find work abroad, they struggle against the poverty and limited opportunities available in Marasaw. Navi hopes to prosper from his talent as a math prodigy, while Neela constantly battles to find some talent to rival her brother’s. Despite the support of their grandmother and friends, both Navi and Neela find that escaping their circumstances, much less their past, is no easy task. The siblings make their separate ways out of Marasaw, but each must make sacrifices and damaging compromises along the way. They also learn dark and dangerous truths about each other, driving them apart in fear and anger.    As Navi and Neela work tirelessly to create new lives for themselves, the outside world, far from being a paradise, is revealed as more punishing and unfair than the world they left behind. Navi wins a prestigious government internship, but his success ironically snuffs out the opportunity for a lasting, loving relationship with a fellow intern. On the strength of rumours and the word of her boyfriend Jaroon, Neela daringly makes her way to a resort town hidden in the rainforest to work as a teacher, only to find that this “Eden,” and Jaroon, are not what they seem.  Chastened and wiser for their experiences, Neela and then Navi are both forced by circumstances to return home. The disappearance of Neela’s daughter, Seetha, leads them back to each other and into the complex and mysterious bonds of family. To save Seetha, Neela and Navi must attempt to heal their damaged relationship and along the way they discover that in the cruel and imperfect world in which they live, hope may still prevail.

What Is Securitization?: And How Did It Pop the Subprime Loan Bubble? $1.99 This Element is an excerpt form Financial Shock: Global Panic and Government Bailouts—How We Got Here and What Must Be Done to Fix It (ISBN: 9780137016631) by Mark Zandi. Available in print and digital formats.Pull back the curtain on the subprime mortgage collapse and discover what really happened.To fully understand the subprime mortgage implosion, you need to know how subprime mortgages were financed. Fundamentally, loans either are financed directly by financial institutions such as commercial banks and thrift institutions or are repackaged as bonds (that is, securitized) and sold to investors, who keep or trade them. The overwhelming majority of subprime loans were securitized….

Whatever Happened to Thrift?: Why Americans Don’t Save and What to Do about It $1.71 It is no secret that Americans save very little: every economic index confirms as much. But to solve the real mystery, we must ask the questions, “Why?” “What are the effects on our economy?” and “What can be done about it?” In this thoroughly researched and thought-provoking book, Ronald T. Wilcox clearly describes not only how the “savings crisis” adversely influences personal lifestyles over the long term but also how it can undermine our national wealth and standard of living. Wilcox cogently explains that savings are essential to fuel our nation’s economic growth, whether it’s putting money in the bank or in the form of direct loans to the government as savings bonds, for example. And, he presents unambiguous facts showing that a high proportion of current wage earners simply will not have enough money for self-support during retirement—and that the government safety nets for income and health can no longer be counted on. Most important, Wilcox examines the many rational and irrational reasons behind individuals’ failures to put money away, what third parties such as corporations and government can do to help, and the steps people can take today to help themselves. The book is an attempt to reinvent thrift in the United States, to find practical ways to help people consume less and save more now so that we can be a richer people in the future and a more prosperous nation. It is a must-read for every corporate executive, policy maker, and concerned citizen.

Whatever Happened to Thrift?: Why Americans Don’t Save and What to Do about It $30 It is no secret that Americans save very little: every economic index confirms as much. But to solve the real mystery, we must ask the questions, “Why?” “What are the effects on our economy?” and “What can be done about it?” In this thoroughly researched and thought-provoking book, Ronald T. Wilcox clearly describes not only how the “savings crisis” adversely influences personal lifestyles over the long term but also how it can undermine our national wealth and standard of living. Wilcox cogently explains that savings are essential to fuel our nation’s economic growth, whether it’s putting money in the bank or in the form of direct loans to the government as savings bonds, for example. And, he presents unambiguous facts showing that a high proportion of current wage earners simply will not have enough money for self-support during retirement—and that the government safety nets for income and health can no longer be counted on. Most important, Wilcox examines the many rational and irrational reasons behind individuals’ failures to put money away, what third parties such as corporations and government can do to help, and the steps people can take today to help themselves. The book is an attempt to reinvent thrift in the United States, to find practical ways to help people consume less and save more now so that we can be a richer people in the future and a more prosperous nation. It is a must-read for every corporate executive, policy maker, and concerned citizen.

Whatever Happened to Thrift?: Why Americans Don’t Save and What to Do about It $7.75 It is no secret that Americans save very little: every economic index confirms as much. But to solve the real mystery, we must ask the questions, “Why?” “What are the effects on our economy?” and “What can be done about it?” In this thoroughly researched and thought-provoking book, Ronald T. Wilcox clearly describes not only how the “savings crisis” adversely influences personal lifestyles over the long term but also how it can undermine our national wealth and standard of living. Wilcox cogently explains that savings are essential to fuel our nation’s economic growth, whether it’s putting money in the bank or in the form of direct loans to the government as savings bonds, for example. And, he presents unambiguous facts showing that a high proportion of current wage earners simply will not have enough money for self-support during retirement—and that the government safety nets for income and health can no longer be counted on. Most important, Wilcox examines the many rational and irrational reasons behind individuals’ failures to put money away, what third parties such as corporations and government can do to help, and the steps people can take today to help themselves. The book is an attempt to reinvent thrift in the United States, to find practical ways to help people consume less and save more now so that we can be a richer people in the future and a more prosperous nation. It is a must-read for every corporate executive, policy maker, and concerned citizen.

Where The Money Is $0.99 Markets go up; markets go down. Yet over the long haul, stocks still are better investments than bonds. If you’re investing for retirement, your children’s education, or simply for personal gain, the challenge is to become a long-term investor amid short-term market fluctuations. And the key to lasting success is identifying future trends today to maximize tomorrow’s investment returns.Dr. Bob Froehlich, Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Strategist of Scudder Investments and one of the most trusted advisors in the financial community, shares his vast knowledge of the global economic landscape to provide you with a practical guide to finding tomorrow’s financial opportunities today. According to Froehlich, spotting broad economic themes allows you to identify sectors that are poised for growth in the next decade and beyond. In Where the Money Is, he identifies five dominant global trends that will shape the long-term direction of the financial markets:* Demographic trends around the world* The globalization of economies and markets* The technology revolution and higher productivity* The worldwide shift toward government downsizing and privatization* Mergers and acquisitions and their effects on the size, shape, and form of companiesBy identifying themes that will drive the market and the specific industries likely to benefit as well as providing tools such as Sectornomics(TM), a strategy of investing in sectors rather than individual companies, Where the Money Is gives investors every chance to conquer the uneven investment terrain. Froehlich gives you the vision to see what tomorrow will bring so that you can find where the money is today and where it will be in the future.

Why Men Are Like Popcorn $3.25 You know him, you can’t avoid him, and who knows, you may even love him. Take a good look at his actions, habits, and perceptions, and you’ll see what women across the country have always known: men are the stuff of great jokes! This raucous collection of good-natured humor certainly offers a profound insight into men, and it may even better a woman’s understanding of the men in her life. More than anything, it will provide hilarious respite from the war between the sexes, proving once and for all that women know a good joke when they see one. What’s the difference between government bonds and men? Bonds mature Why are men happy? Because ignorance is bliss What has an IQ of seven? Eight men