The SSA shows that eliminating the cap on social security taxes would eliminate 73% of the long range shortfall. https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/solvency/provisions_tr2024/charts/chart_run106.html…
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Category Archives: Investing in TIPS
New 5-year TIPS auctions with a real yield of 1.732%, highest in 15 years
Still, real yield was lower than expected as inflation expectations surged higher. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The Treasury’s offering of $21 billion in a new 5-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security resulted in a mixed bag for investors: The real yield of … Continue reading
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Get ready: This week’s 5-year TIPS auction is a ‘unicorn’
Rarely seen: High real yield, high coupon rate, discount to par value. Update: New 5-year TIPS auctions with a real yield of 1.732%, highest in 15 years By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The U.S. Treasury on Thursday will offer $21 billion in … Continue reading
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September inflation report sets I Bond variable rate at 6.48%; Social Security COLA rises to 8.7%
Annual core inflation hits 6.6%, a 40-year high. This isn’t good news for financial markets. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Here is it, the most important Inflation Day of the year, setting in stone the inflation-adjusted variable rate on U.S. Series … Continue reading
TreasuryDirect launches its revamped website (sort of)
The outer shell is new, information is easier to find, more clearly presented. And then … same old, same old. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com If you’ve visited everyone’s favorite financial website — TreasuryDirect.gov — in the past few days, you … Continue reading
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Opinion: Treasury should raise the I Bond’s fixed rate
But will it? The odds are better now. The data clearly support a higher fixed rate. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com How the U.S. Treasury sets the fixed rate on the Series I Savings Bond is wrapped in mystery. No one … Continue reading
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Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities 
The SS withholding rate could be raised a quarter of a percent and do even more to balance the books.