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Maturity is, quite simply, the date when a debt becomes due. As for our maturity, well... we're still giggling about the word "due."

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Finance allah shmoop What is maturity and oh yes the

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irony asking someone It shmoop to read about maturity but

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we'll do our best here So maturity what is it

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Well it's just the date when a debt becomes do

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You buy a thousand dollar bond with a maturity date

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of may thirty one twenty twenty five Also what happens

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on may thirty one twenty twenty five Well that's the

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date you'll get your grand back and you'll have the

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interest for that period as well So if you had

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a six percent bond on that last payment may thirty

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one twenty twenty five trivia question how much would you

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get back Yes ah thousand dollar principle You'd get returned

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but you'd also get what What yes the final payment

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of thirty bucks right cause bonds pay interest twice a

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year six percent sixty dollars a year You get that

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thirty bucks back and that'd be the end of it

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We love the semester system here it's from up We're

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hoping we can age beyond the seventh grade level that

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we seemed to live at here pretty soon for said

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