Building TIPS Ladders to Achieve a Stable Living Standard -- A Discussion Allan Roth

This is the perfect time to consider purchasing TIPS -- Treasury Inflation Protected Securities. Their yield hasn't been this high for decades/ TIPS can be used to build your living standard floor and experience only upside to your living standard. (Btw, my company's MaxiFi Planner Premium and Pro software does Upside Investing.) Allan is expert on TIPS and how to ladder them. But he's an amazing font of knowledge on all aspects of personal finance. And, having advised huge companies, he's spending his "retirement" helping the little or, at least, littler folk. Please tune in to this fascinating episode of Economics Matters -- the Podcast.
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[@slovokia]

The interesting question is whether the market discount on treasury securities is taxable for state income tax purposes. The federal government considers the market discount on municipal bonds to be taxable for federal income tax purposes. So I could imagine a situation where some state governments could take an analogous position with respect to the taxability of market discounts on treasury securities for state income tax purposes. Many TIPS that investors will be buying in the secondary market to construct their ladders will trade at a discount to par exceeding deminimis limits so they will produce income based on that market discount upon maturity.

[@sharonf7969]

How do I build a TIPS ladder through the secondary market like Vanguard? Just call them up? Can Maxifi help build this ladder?