Rory Litwin

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Also, I would really love an SA Q&A service, as an educational tool. So many people became interested in economics and investing in 2008. I think there is a need for an educational service that fits the way people live (on the web). I might even pay for a Q&A service.

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I can understand the move to a more social type of a website, but I have to say that it is not what I come to SA for. I come to SA for expert opinion. Diverse opinion, yes, but I am not interested in reading posts by people who don't know a whole lot more than I do.

So, I would request that it be easy to get to articles that are the most highly rated or written by the authors with the most followers, or even to give special status to a number of writers.

I realize that it is good to have an avenue for opinion that comes from outside the establishment, because sometimes that's where the truth is going to come from. However, I don't think most people know all that much even about the things that interest them most.

Pros and Cons of Bond ETFs

I am curious about WIP, which is a fund of international inflation-protected government bonds, or seems to be. Does it work like funds of TIPS? What is the nature of the ex-US gov't bonds that it invests in?

TIPs to Protect Yourself from Future Inflation

Any comment on Western Asset Inflation Management Fund (IMF)? The primary difference, if I'm not mistaken, is that it is not limited to US instruments but also uses inflation-linked securities from other governments, and maybe some other things. It is yielding slightly less. I think it might be good in the event of a falling dollar relative to other currencies, in addition to overall inflation protection. And I am wondering about the tax questions. TIPS are federal tax free, so my preference would be to have them outside of my retirement account. I am guessing that IMF is not tax-exempt.

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