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TIPS Auction Step By Step: Place Order
[Updated on July 11, 2008: added related posts in the series.] This is part three of the TIPS auctions series. Other posts in this series are: TIPS Auction Step By Step: Know the Schedule TIPS Auction...
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TIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the Results
[An updated version of this article appears in my new web site Explore Bonds, together with many other articles on investing in bonds.] This is the fourth installment in my TIPS auction series. The...
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TIPS During Deflation
[Updated on Oct. 28, 2008. All yields are real yields, after inflation/deflation adjustments.] While the stock market was in turmoil, the real yields on Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS)...
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Vanguard TIPS Fund Portfolio Changes
I return to one of my favorite topics: TIPS. For new readers, TIPS are Treasury Inflation Protected Securities. They are a type of bond which pays interest indexed to inflation. In a previous post,...
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Explore TIPS: A Practical Guide to Investing in Treasury Inflation-Protected...
Long time readers know I have a special interest in TIPS, the inflation indexed bonds. At one of my annual reader surveys, a reader asked why I wrote about TIPS all the time. I like TIPS because they...
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Explore TIPS One Year Anniversary: 50% Off PDF Edition
I published my small book on inflation indexed bonds Explore TIPS around this time last year. Back then I had no idea how it would do. I heard most self-published books sell no more than 100 copies. I...
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TIPS Price Up: Buy, Hold, Or Sell?
US Treasury sold 30-year TIPS at 2.19% real yield in February 2011. I didn’t buy it because the maturity is too long for me. Now, not mere three months later, the value of this bond has gone up...
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CPI Seasonal Adjustments
Every month, around the 15th, a government agency Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announces the Consumer Price Index for the previous month. The inflation numbers for May was announced last week. A...
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Long-Term Bonds Do Wonders When Times Are Right
Reader Ron reminded me of this blunder I wrote back in May: TIPS Price Up: Buy, Hold, Or Sell? Back then I wrote about a 30-year TIPS bond maturing in Feb. 2041 having gained 13% in short three months...
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Friday Reading: Designing Your Portfolio
White Coat Investor published a 7-part series on designing your portfolio: Goal-setting Return vs Savings Choosing Asset Classes List of Asset Classes Putting together the asset allocation Implementing...
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Friday Reading: Work Cliff
Although the fiscal cliff is behind us for now, I’m suffering from a work cliff. After taking off 10 days for holidays, my work load increased by an infinite percentage. Too fast, too soon! Where’s my...
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A new job is exciting but the transition is brutal. By staying at the same company I get the benefit of tapping into an unadvertised job outside my established area of expertise, but I also don’t get a...
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Friday Reading: Pay TurboTax Fee With Your Refund
A New Variation of a Costly Tax-Time Offer by Ann Carrns at New York Times Here’s a deal from TurboTax: Paying for your tax preparation is easy: If you don’t want to use a credit card, you can subtract...
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Friday Reading: Sell In May and Go Away, Myth or Not?
First an administrative note. I moved the blog to a new web hosting provider last weekend. If you haven’t noticed anything different, great. It’s supposed to be transparent, except I hope the website...
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Friday Reading: Pluralistic Ignorance
Frakt on Medicaid and the Oregon Medicaid Study by Russ Roberts at EconTalk What a surprise to hear my former co-blogger Austin Frakt interviewed on the popular economics podcast EconTalk. Well done,...
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Friday Reading: How Many Bank Accounts?
Does Having Multiple Bank Accounts Encourage Overspending? by Matthew Amster-Burton at MintLife Matthew and his wife have 15 checking and savings accounts, not counting CDs, retirement accounts, or...
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Friday Reading: Old Economy Steven
Old Economy Steve: The Official Meme For Embittered Millennials by Jordan Weissmann at The Atlantic Have you seen Old Economy Steven? They are quite interesting. However, I wouldn’t dwell on how the...
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Friday Reading: Plutus Awards Categories
Every year personal finance bloggers can compete for Plutus Awards. The organizers announced the categories for this year. I’m thinking of entering for Best-Kept Secret Personal Finance Blog. What do...
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Friday Reading: Patience Is a Virtue
After going almost straight up month after month, the stock market finally got more interesting. During the climb, some readers kindly reminded me of my experiment to buy on a dip with my 2013 IRA...
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Is Tax Planning Moral?
The discount to the net asset value in the three muni bond ETFs I mentioned on July 1 got smaller, and in the case of the iShares national muni bond ETF, largely disappeared. ETF Discount to NAV...
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