Can U.S. economic data be trusted?
In June this year (2025) I built out a TIPS ladder to fund the first 28 years of retirement for myself and Dear Wife. Fortunately, most of those bonds will be maturing long after the current administration is over, and I don’t intend to retire for another 4.5 years.
One would expect that if inflation adjustments are deliberately falsified for some period of time, that holders of such bonds will be “made whole” when we have sane people in power once again. And I, for one, just don’t see this country going completely down the drain, and expect the pendulum to swing back rather hard toward normality.
That doesn’t mean there won’t be quite a lot of suffering, especially for low-income folks, before that happens….
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