If you want to invest in a long-term Treasury security and you think inflation won't ever dip below 2 percent, this makes more sense than a nominal Treasury bond.

It isn't a market that has matured, but there is more interest. Given where inflation has been - I've seen it up 10 to 12 percent - this is a market that should do much better.

It would do very well in a tax-deferred account because you would avoid final reckoning until you cash out the tax-deferred account.

reducing the visibility and ultimately the presence of coalition forces as we transition to Iraqi security self-reliance remains a key element of our counter-insurgency strategy.

Look at it! Look at it, damn you! This is the result of your consistent, persistent, grinding, impoverishing inflation, you despicable loathsome morons!

It looks as though core inflation is back. We have the core CPI now growing at an average monthly rate of roughly 0.3 percent thus far in 2004. That adds up to a rate hike happening sooner rather than later.