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Inflation hits home.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
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August 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 The Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Steep hikes in the price of bread and cheese raise red flags for one reader. Another challenges a columnist's stock pick. A reader says you might do better buying a foreclosed home at auction. And the owner of a GPS navigation device says he got a bum steer.
And TIPS won't help. I disagree with James Glassman's endorsement of Treasury inflation-protected securities ("Opening Shot," June). My wife and I had a substantial portion of our savings in TIPS bonds. But we pulled out our money because I concluded the government was manipulating the economic data to underestimate the true level of inflation. For example, a loaf of store-brand multigrain bread went from $2.39 to ...
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