Your Source for Fixed Income Investing:  Best CD , FHLB, Treasury, iBond, TIPS and Money Market Fund rates

• CD Rates
  
• Checking Accounts
• GNMA
  

GSEs: Government Sponsored Enterprises

• FFCB:  Federal Farm Credit Banks
  
• FHLB Rates FHLB Federal Home Loan Bank System
• FHLM:  Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
• FNMA:  Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
• SLMA: Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae)
  
  
• I Bonds
  
  
• Insurance Rates
  
  
• Money Market Funds
  
  
• TIPS: Treasury Inflation Protected Securities
  
  
• US Treasury Bond Rates
  

Free Fixed Income Primer on page 2 of The Retirement Advisor

Definitions: 

Certificate of Deposit or CD is a certificate from a bank stating that the named party has a specified sum on deposit, usually for a given period of time at a fixed rate of interest.  Often there is a penalty for early withdrawal (taking your money out before the specified period of time.)

Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE)s are independent organizations that are in part sponsored by the federal government. Examples include the Federal Farm Credit Banks, the Federal Home Loan Bank System, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae).  Debt securities issued by GSEs are solely the obligation of their issuer and do not carry any guarantee by the federal government.

GNMAs are guarantee by the federal government.