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How Inflation Is Quietly Eating Your Bond Ladder
On this episode of Inflation and Your Money, Lucas and Luna tackle a retirement strategy that's supposed to be bulletproof: the bond ladder. While inflation cools and the ten-year breakeven rate sits at 2.27 percent, fixed-income investors are still watching their purchasing power slip away. The hosts drill into a real-world example—a retiree with a $500,000 ladder built when rates were higher—and show how reinvesting maturing bonds at today's lower yields quietly erodes real returns. They break down the effect of a 3.6 percent federal funds rate, why a 2.27 percent breakeven still…
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