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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (23699)	2/7/2011 12:11:39 AM
From: bull_dozer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29622

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. dailyfinance.com