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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold & Gold Stock Analysis
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (23699)2/7/2011 12:11:39 AM
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Treasury TIPS: A Looming Disaster for Small Investors

During the last few years, many small investors hoping to add some insurance to their portfolios invested in Treasury inflation-protected securities, otherwise known as TIPS. As the Treasury Department wanted us to know, TIPS "provide protection against inflation."

So now that inflation is again on the horizon, those investors should be sitting pretty, right? Wrong. It turns out TIPS are a horrible investment when the economy is facing higher inflation.


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