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Treasury Inflation Protected Securities
The United States Treasury currently offers a special kind of security, called a Treasury Inflation-Protected Security (TIPS), whose principal amount is adjusted for inflation. The Treasury Department regularly auctions TIPS with 5-year, 10-year and 20-year maturity. The Treasury introduced these instruments in 1997, based on the premise that the issuance of TIPS would reduce interest costs to the Treasury over the long term and would increase the different types of investors that buy their debt instruments. Although TIPS do bear a significant risk of loss and are therefore no a cash equivalent, they have been very popular among certain classes of investors looking to hedge their interest rate and inflation exposure.
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