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The person you’re responding to specifically mentioned TIPS.

Your response seems to imply you don’t know what they are because they’re explicitly linked to inflation with a factor linked to CPI.

So if inflation goes up 7.5% in a year then your principal invested in a TIPS bond goes up 7.5% even before you get the “nothing” coupon payment.

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I do know what TIPS are, I even own a bit. One problem is that there is a yearly cap to how much you can buy, and its 10,000$. For some people that is all they have, but for others with more assets, it will only be a small piece of the bucket.

Edit: TIPS and other treasury bonds are distinctly different.

> Weeeeellll, tips monocle, you must be uninformed of what TIPS mean, so I will take it upon myself to inform you, lest a know-nothing like yourself gets confused.

TIPS are overpriced because of fixed income fund mandates, moron. I worked in bond sales. You don't have to be such a prick, you know.

You seem a bit sensitive.

I think you might have an anxiety disorder.

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