The U.S. Treasury offers several ways to purchase U.S. government bonds. There are the traditional coupon bonds and Treasury Inflation-Indexed Securities. How do these bonds differ from their traditional counterparts?
What will be an ideal response?
Inflation-indexed securities protect the borrower against inflation risk. If inflation is higher than expected, this will reduce bond prices for the traditional government bonds, but not the inflation-indexed bonds.
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