After a creditable 2023, last year marked a return to gloomy form for the media’s stockpickers. While four of the ten annual portfolios did manage to beat the London market’s sluggish performance, the ...

Not long ago, investors had to pay the U.S. government for the privilege of owning Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities. The real yields, that is the yields after factoring in inflation, were ...

Despite the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target, long-term U.S. consumer inflation has averaged over 3%. The 3-year annualized inflation rate has been 5.4% underscoring the need for investors to ...

Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities reward their owners in two ways. One payment consists of a real interest rate. In January 2015, for example, the Treasury Department issued new 30-year TIPS ...

TIPS are government bonds indexed to inflation. The principal of TIPS increases with inflation and decreases with deflation. If you hold TIPS to maturity, you will receive at least the original ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article gave incorrect information about gifts being subject to income taxes. Since President Donald Trump first proposed exempting tips from ...

The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would eliminate federal taxes on tips, advancing a key campaign promise of President Trump’s, with the help of Senate Democrats. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) ...

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WASHINGTON — In his private meeting with Senate Republicans last week, former President Donald Trump joked that a new campaign pitch has made him very popular with the caddies at his golf course near ...