<span>A treasury </span>bond<span> may be a 30-year commitment.</span>
To add, a Treasury bond (T-Bond) is a marketable,
fixed-interest U.S. government debt security with a maturity of more than 10 years. Treasury
bonds make interest payments semi-annually, and the income received is only
taxed at the federal level.
The correct answer is A.
Starting a new business, as any investment project, entails a certain level of risk. Even tough an entrepeneur is able to develop a product that he believes would be attractive for consumers, there are many aspects that should be examined before deciding to start a business: market environment (number of competitors, elasticity of the demand, profits obtained in the industry), or inner factors (type of technology needed, how to produce efficiently, human resources policies, etc).
Even tough many things can be studied and plans and strategies need to be defined, there are factors which are unpredictable and can lead a firm to bankruptcy: a global economic crisis starts, there is a rise in input prices, there is a sharp decline of the demand on the product, etc. <u>This uncertainty (risk) makes entrepeneurship highly volatile, very large profits can be earned but also heavy losses can be incurred. </u>
However the standard image of southern slavery is that large plantation with hundreds pf slaves. in fact such situations were rare. fully 3/4 of southern whites did not even own slaves; those who did was 88% owned twenty or fewer.
In summary, it would mean that slavery would be abolished, and that the nation would be in fact united, with (supposedly, it actually took a very long time for this to happen considering the KKK attacks) less racism in the U.S.