{"id":421342,"date":"2010-03-12T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:406918"},"modified":"2010-03-12T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:27:00","slug":"real-return-bonds-pricey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421342","title":{"rendered":"Real return bonds pricey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just how pricey are real-return bonds these days? Insanely so, says Eddy Elfenbein of the Crossing Wall Street blog. He points to the yield curve for Treasury Inflation Protected Securities. These are the U.S. government bonds that carry an automatic adjustment for inflation. Thanks to investors\u2019 thirst for safety, they\u2019ve been bid up to nosebleed levels. <\/p>\n<p>At current rates, TIPS are guaranteed to lose you money in real terms over the next two years. They won\u2019t start to produce a 2% real return for at least four years. And, of course, that\u2019s all before tax. \u201cI can\u2019t help but think it\u2019s the Treasury equivalent of the Internet bubble from 10 years ago,\u201d writes Elfenbein.<\/p>\n<p><i>Freelance business journalist Ian McGugan blogs for the Financial Post. <\/i><br \/>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=406918\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how pricey are real-return bonds these days? Insanely so, says Eddy Elfenbein of the Crossing Wall Street blog. He points to the yield curve for Treasury Inflation Protected Securities. These are the U.S. government bonds that carry an automatic adjustment for inflation. Thanks to investors\u2019 thirst for safety, they\u2019ve been bid up to nosebleed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}