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- Gold and precious metals: how gold is priced and what drives it How gold trades through futures, bullion funds and coins, its 26-year price record, and how its link to real interest rates held for 17 years and then broke.
- Real interest rates: nominal rates minus inflation, explained How to compute a real interest rate, ex post versus ex ante, the real fed funds rate since 1960 and the 10-year TIPS yield, and why real rates drive markets.
- TIPS and breakeven inflation: how inflation-protected bonds work How TIPS adjust principal for inflation, how breakeven inflation is read from TIPS and Treasury yields, and how breakevens compare with realized CPI.
- Treasury bills, notes and bonds: the US government’s debt menu The marketable Treasury securities explained: bill, note and bond maturities, how each pays interest, TIPS and floating-rate notes, taxes, and how to compare them.
Educational content, not investment advice. Finabase Learn explains how markets and tools work. It does not recommend any security or strategy, and examples are for illustration only. Investing involves risk, including the loss of principal. Rules and figures are for the United States unless stated and can change — check the cited source before you act.