Unfortunately politics are increasingly important to economics. Deficits, interest rates, wars, immigration, energy policy, regulatory policy, and so on all…
Cutting spending, raising taxes, and inflation / currency devaluation are the tools to manage the debt. There's quite a bit…
Signed up for my Idme login today, it was pretty painless and fairly quick. it almost seems to easy compared…
The problem at base isn't political, it's generational - we boomers are horribly irresponsible and we vote accordingly. (I'm 62,…
Category Archives: Inflation
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
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Let’s take a look back at IVOL, a once-hot inflation-fighting ETF
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Back in the fall of 2020, when I was still writing for SeekingAlpha, I was getting a lot of questions about a new ETF with a tongue-twisting title: the Quadratic Interest Rate Volatility and Inflation Hedge … Continue reading
Posted in ETFs, Inflation, Investing in TIPS
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A 10-year TIPS matured Sunday. How did it do as an investment?
Despite a real yield deeply negative to inflation, CUSIP 912828UH1 outperformed a nominal 10-year Treasury. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Sometimes what looks like a perfectly awful investment will end up surprising you. That is the case with CUSIP 912828UH1, a … Continue reading
Posted in Inflation, Investing in TIPS, TreasuryDirect
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The first 10-year TIPS of the ‘new era’ will auction Thursday. Interested?
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com It’s almost hard to believe, but this new age of higher interest rates is only about seven months old. A lot has changed in the last year. Back on Jan. 14, 2022, a 10-year Treasury Inflation-Protected … Continue reading
Posted in Inflation, Investing in TIPS
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One thing you left out - this is exactly what happened in the 60s and 70s and how the post-WW2…