Latest / Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo: Protecting Purchasing Power and Beating Inflation
How Inflation Is Quietly Eating Your TIPS Bond Returns
Episode 128 of Inflation and Your Money with Fexingo examines an overlooked inflation blind spot: Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities. Lucas and Luna use today's data—CPI at 332.6, the 10-year breakeven at 2.26%, and gold at $4,133—to show how taxes on phantom income, low real yields after fees, and the steep opportunity cost versus equities make TIPS a far weaker inflation hedge than most investors assume. They walk through a concrete example: a $10,000 TIPS ladder bought five years ago versus a simple low-cost equity ETF, net of taxes. The takeaway: TIPS have a narrow, tactical use…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.