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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Vosilla who wrote (4785)	3/10/2008 10:31:22 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71412

In today's WSJ there are several items of note. First, how people are piling into call options on bear-market ETFs like SDS. Then there's an article on how TIPS are som popular that they will be selling at zero interest at the next auction. I could understand that if the TIPS were set to reflect real inflation instead of the doctored figure. TIPs have been another big disappointment to me--another sellout by our own government. Some years ago I thought I was doing a very wise thing putting my wife's quite large pension 100% into the available TIPs fund. I guess it has done OK but it really ought to be paying her about 25% more income now than it is. I have made up for my mistake by causing her IRA to increase almost 700%, not counting monthly payouts.