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Jim: WIP, an ETF containing nothing but a broad basket of ex-US inflation protected government bonds. The risk this protects you against is a big fall in the US dollar. ... This doesn't give great returns, but it's modestly positive in real terms and more to the point should protect long term purchasing power better than any other "one click" security I know of.

Could you elaborate on this a bit? At your suggestion, following some checking of my own, I moved half of my cash stash from SWVXX to WIP in early January out of concern for a falling dollar. WIP has served well as a cash equivalent since then, delivering a 9.3% CAGR with monthly dividends reinvested. However its long-term performance appears to have been somewhat meager and quite volatile. I'm wondering whether I'm not seeing something that you're aware of.

Tom

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