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Recent Posts
- Disinflation triggers in June, but for how long?
- A restaurant menu demonstrates the frightening power of inflation
- A 10-year TIPS is maturing July 15. How did it do as an investment?
- TIPS vs. I Bonds: Right now, it’s ‘advantage TIPS’
- 5-year TIPS auction gets a real yield of 1.955%, a good result for investors
- My schedule … and what’s coming next
- 5-year TIPS reopening auction arrives in a volatile week
- U.S. inflation rose 0.5% in May; annual rate hits 4.2%, highest in three years
- Academic study: I Bonds out-perform high-yield savings accounts
- TIPS values exist in a multiverse: What’s the correct reality?
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- Bloomberg: Current yields
- Chart: 10-year inflation breakeven rate
- Chart: 10-year TIPS yields
- Chart: 30-year TIPS inflation breakeven rates
- Chart: 30-year TIPS real yields
- Chart: 5-year TIPS inflation breakeven rates
- Chart: 5-year TIPS yields
- Historical Auction Query
- Historical I Bonds data
- Historical inflation data
- Historical TIPS data
- Tentative auction schedule
- TIPS/CPI Data
- Treasury Direct
- U.S. Inflation Calculator
- U.S. Treasury Yield Curve Estimates
- WSJ: Current TIPS values
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No tax on Social Security benefits? Not quite true.
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com I sometimes watch too much CNN (stop me!) and on Thursday I heard Republican members of Congress repeatedly state that the just-approved Big Beautiful Bill would eliminate the tax on Social Security benefits, fulfilling a campaign … Continue reading
Posted in Medicare, Retirement, Social Security, Taxes
Tagged finance, personal-finance, politics, Social Security, Taxes
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TipswatchChat, I can't argue with your experience, only share mine. Chronic understaffing? My most recent estate/beneficiary experience was only a…