That plug in number for November because of the government shutdown makes me feel a bit shortchanged with the variable…
If I had funds at this moment I would buy long dated TIPS instead of iBonds. Those real yields are…
I just wanted to offer up this free I Bond tracker I developed for anyone who'd like to try it.https://ibonds.pages.dev/No…
I’d wait until October to make a decision. The difference between keeping the cash in a 3% HYSA and buying…
Category Archives: Investing in TIPS
Long-time I Bond investors face a tax time bomb
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com U.S. Series I Savings Bonds are a unique investment because all interest is rolled into principal until redemption, and in most cases, all the compounded earnings are tax deferred until the I Bond is redeemed or … Continue reading
Posted in I Bond, Investing in TIPS, Medicare, Retirement, Savings Bond, Taxes, TreasuryDirect
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TreasuryDirect 1099s: How to find tax forms, decipher them
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com One of the “interesting” challenges in dealing with the U.S. government’s TreasuryDirect website comes each January, when you might — or might not — need to go in search of federal tax forms. If you had … Continue reading
Posted in I Bond, Investing in TIPS, Taxes, Treasury Bills, TreasuryDirect
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Here are results of my short-term TIPS experiment
Did it work out well? Yes. But is it worth the risks? By David Enna, Tipswatch.com For a few years now, I’ve been getting questions about seemingly lavish high real yields on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities that are nearing maturity. My … Continue reading
A 10-year TIPS matured Jan. 15. How did it do as an investment?
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Back on Jan. 23, 2014, the Treasury auctioned a new 10-year TIPS, CUSIP 912828B25, generating a real yield to maturity of 0.661% and a coupon rate of 0.625%. That doesn’t seem exciting, but at the time … Continue reading
Posted in Inflation, Investing in TIPS, Treasury Bills
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10-year TIPS auction gets real yield of 1.810%, an attractive result
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com That worked out well. A bit of jawboning earlier this week by Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller sent both real and nominal yields climbing in the days ahead of the Treasury’s $18 billion offering of a … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Reserve, Inflation, Investing in TIPS
Tagged bonds, fixed-income, inflation, investing, personal-finance
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Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities 
It definitely caused at least a small reduction in six-month inflation. What's amazing is if the United States didn't attack…