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I repeat - heads will roll if Roku got $500 million guaranteed in excess of the FDIC $250,000 limit, but…
That's only 1.5 months worth of Fed runoff on their balance sheet ($60 billion Treasuries, $35 billion MBS each month)…
The 10 year is dropping fast, now at 1.18.
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Category Archives: Inflation
January Inflation: What It Means for Your Savings
Do AI innovations signal the end to human journalism? Let’s take a look. And now, for something completely different on a Saturday morning, I asked Bing.com’s new ChatGPT-powered software to write an article on January inflation, in the style of … Continue reading
Posted in I Bond, Inflation, Investing in TIPS
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January inflation came in higher than expected, rising 0.5% to an annual rate of 6.4%
Non-seasonally adjusted inflation rose 0.8%, giving a boost to investors in TIPS and I Bonds. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The January inflation report, just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed a return to higher-than-expected U.S. price increases, after … Continue reading
Posted in I Bond, Inflation, Investing in TIPS
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This week’s 30-year TIPS auction will be another milestone event
Real yield to maturity could be the highest in 12 years. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The Treasury on Thursday will offer $9 billion at auction for a new 30-year TIPS, CUSIP 912810TP3. The real yield to maturity and coupon rate … Continue reading
Posted in Inflation, Investing in TIPS, TreasuryDirect
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Monthly U.S. inflation for 2022 just got revised … a bit
This has no effect on annual inflation or on earnings for TIPS and I Bonds. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com While I was searching Friday for consensus estimates on the January inflation report, to be released Tuesday, I noticed something odd. … Continue reading
Posted in I Bond, Inflation, Investing in TIPS
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Mystery solved: ‘Inflation Guy’ explains the upcoming CPI reweightings
Is this a conspiracy to make inflation look tamer? No. It’s a routine but important update. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Over the last few weeks, I’ve gotten questions about “surprise” price-index reweightings coming in the January inflation report about to … Continue reading
Posted in Inflation
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Patrick, you wrote: "Brokered CDs do not compound interest, so CDs that pay every six months or annually are not…