# Swoopr Investment: Fixed Income Bonds
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## Fixed Income & Bonds

- [Fixed Income & Bonds](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds.md)): Bond fundamentals for investors: how yield, duration, credit risk, ladders, and bond funds work, with links to Swoopr's ETF, tax, and macro coverage.
- [Bond Basics: What a Bond Actually Is](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-basics/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-basics.md)): A bond is a contract, not a safer stock. Learn par value, coupon, maturity, seniority and call features, and why a bond price moves before it matures.
- [Bond Duration Explained](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-duration-explained/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-duration-explained.md)) (WebMCP tool: bond_duration_convexity): Bond duration measures how much a bond's price moves when interest rates change. See Macaulay duration, modified duration, and a worked numeric example.
- [Bond Ladders: How to Build One](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-ladders/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-ladders.md)): A bond ladder spaces maturities so you never have to time rates. Learn the structure, worked income math, why callable bonds break ladders and fund options.
- [Bond Liquidity Risk Explained](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-liquidity-risk/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-liquidity-risk.md)): Bond liquidity risk is about exit, not default. Learn how dealer markets price bonds, what a bid-ask spread costs and how to check liquidity before buying.
- [Bond Price & Yield to Maturity Calculator](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-price-yield-to-maturity-calculator/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-price-yield-to-maturity-calculator.md)) (WebMCP tool: calculate_bond_price_yield): Bond price and yield to maturity calculator: compute a bond's price from a market yield, or solve for yield to maturity from a bond's price, given face value, coupon rate, and maturity.
- [Bond Prices and Yields Explained](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-prices-yields/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/bond-prices-yields.md)): Why bond prices and yields move in opposite directions, how bonds are quoted against par, and what current yield, yield to maturity and yield to worst measure.
- [Callable Bonds and Yield to Worst](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/callable-bonds/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/callable-bonds.md)): A callable bond lets the issuer repay early when it suits them. Learn call schedules, make-whole calls, and why yield to worst is the only honest yield figure.
- [Corporate Bonds vs Treasuries Compared](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/corporate-bonds-vs-treasuries/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/corporate-bonds-vs-treasuries.md)): Corporate bonds and Treasuries both pay fixed interest, but differ in issuer, credit risk, taxation, trading, and call features. Compare the mechanics.
- [Corporate Bonds: How They Actually Work](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/corporate-bonds/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/corporate-bonds.md)): A corporate bond is a company’s enforceable promise to pay. Learn indentures, seniority, covenants, credit spreads and how corporate bonds really trade.
- [Bond Credit Risk and Ratings](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/credit-risk-ratings/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/credit-risk-ratings.md)): How bond credit risk reaches you through default and through spread widening, what seniority decides about recovery, and what a credit rating leaves out.
- [High-Yield Bonds: Pricing the Risk](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/high-yield-bonds/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/high-yield-bonds.md)): High-yield bonds pay more because default risk is real. Learn break-even default arithmetic, why recovery rates matter, and how concentration ruins the math.
- [I Bonds vs CDs: Rate and Liquidity](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/i-bonds-vs-cds/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/i-bonds-vs-cds.md)): Series I savings bonds and CDs both protect your principal but set interest differently. Compare rate structure, liquidity, taxes, and early withdrawal rules.
- [Mortgage-Backed Securities Explained](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/mortgage-backed-securities/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/mortgage-backed-securities.md)): An MBS passes mortgage payments through to investors. Learn prepayment and extension risk, negative convexity, CMO tranches and how asset-backed deals work.
- [Municipal Bonds: How Muni Debt Works](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/municipal-bonds/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/municipal-bonds.md)) (WebMCP tool: compare_municipal_bond_yield): Municipal bonds fund public projects. Learn general obligation versus revenue pledges, how to use EMMA disclosure, taxable equivalent yield and the real risks.
- [Series I and EE Savings Bonds](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/savings-bonds-series-i-and-ee/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/savings-bonds-series-i-and-ee.md)): Series I and EE savings bonds explained: the I bond composite rate formula, the EE 20-year doubling guarantee worth 3.53% a year, holding rules and taxes.
- [Short-Duration vs. Long-Duration Bonds](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/short-duration-vs-long-duration-bonds/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/short-duration-vs-long-duration-bonds.md)): Short-duration and long-duration bonds differ in interest rate risk, reinvestment risk, and starting yield. See the mechanics and a worked numeric example.
- [TIPS: Inflation-Protected Securities](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/tips-inflation-protected-securities/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/tips-inflation-protected-securities.md)): TIPS index principal to consumer prices. Learn the adjustment mechanics, the deflation floor and its limits, breakeven inflation and the phantom income problem.
- [Treasury Securities: Complete Guide](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/treasury-securities-complete-guide/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/treasury-securities-complete-guide.md)): Treasury bills, notes, bonds, TIPS and FRNs compared on term, interest and risk, with the auction rules, duration maths and tax treatment behind the choice.
- [Treasury Securities Explained](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/treasury-securities/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/treasury-securities.md)): Bills, notes, bonds, TIPS and floating rate notes compared on terms, interest and risk, plus how the single-price Treasury auction sets the rate for bidders.
- [US Treasury Central Clearing](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/us-treasury-central-clearing/) ([Markdown](https://www.getswoopr.com/fixed-income-bonds/us-treasury-central-clearing.md)): The SEC rule requires covered clearing agencies to mandate central clearing of eligible Treasury secondary-market transactions. Cash deadline: December 31, 2026. Repo deadline: June 30, 2027.