{"id":133,"date":"2013-09-05T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2013-09-05T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T16:14:01","slug":"to-tips-or-not-to-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/to-tips-or-not-to-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"To TIPS or not to TIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am of two minds regarding investing in TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities).<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, there seems to be little threat of inflation at the moment. On the other hand, it&#8217;s good to have a long-term hedge against the possibility of unexpected inflation.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"This article\" href=\"http:\/\/news.morningstar.com\/articlenet\/article.aspx?id=609519\">This article\u00a0<\/a>explores the pros and cons of TIPS and makes the interesting point that they may be more appropriate for someone nearing or in retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am of two minds regarding investing in TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities). On the one hand, there seems to be little threat of inflation at the moment. On the other hand, it&#8217;s good to have a long-term hedge against the possibility of unexpected inflation. This article\u00a0explores the pros and cons of TIPS and makes the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/to-tips-or-not-to-tips\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}