Over the last 12 months, I've been populating this web site with articles on TIPS. I put together everything I wrote on this web site about TIPS, together with some new materials, into a book Explore TIPS: A Practical Guide to Investing in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.

There will be an auction for a 30-year TIPS on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. The official announcement will be published on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010.

The US Department of Treasury announced after their November quarterly refunding meeting they will discontinue issuing 20-year TIPS and start issuing 30-year TIPS.

The Treasury Department included these paragraphs about TIPS in their August 2009 Quarterly Refunding Statement (emphasis added):

Treasury is committed to issuing TIPS in a regular and predictable manner across the yield curve. These securities are an important part of our overall debt management strategy, and market participants can expect issuance to gradually increase in FY 2010.