The Past 12 Years in One Chart

I apologize if you’re getting sick of these TIPs charts, but this one is fascinating. You can really see how the economic situation has changed over the past few years. This shows the real yield of the TIPs that comes due in April 2028.

This started as a 30-year bond and now it’s a 17-1/2 year bond. The real yield was once as high as 4.4% right at the dawn of the new millennium. Today it’s 1.2%.

Posted by on October 15th, 2010 at 2:35 pm


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