Telis Demos

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1,116 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5d ago

Telis Demos’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 4.

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WSJ's Take On the Week · How to Make Inflation Work for Your Portfolio · 16 Aug 2026 podcast

Stock market is sort of one answer to inflation because stocks should companies earnings should inflate with with inflation. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

But a lot of people are nearing retirement or they just like to play a little safer in their portfolio. voice-verified

So they buy bonds. voice-verified

But if you're willing to venture a little bit further, should you be putting that money to work in the fixed income markets? voice-verified

And one way to do that in a way that addresses one's concern about inflation, and it sounds like based on what we've been talking about so far, a lot of people still believe that inflation is not licked. voice-verified

It's something to still be very mindful of. voice-verified

Many at the Fed are. voice-verified

There's a market for that, and it's called TIPS. voice-verified

And here's the definition finally. voice-verified

Treasury Inflation Protected Securities. voice-verified

Did I get that right, Jo? voice-verified

You did. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

And I might mangle this, but okay, in brief, the way that they work is you earn a real yield and then that is in addition to whatever the inflation rate is. voice-verified

So if inflation is 2% and you get a 3% real yield, voice-verified

What you get on the bond overall is 5% over the life of that bond. voice-verified

Did I get that right? voice-verified

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You get more money because they treat it as if you had invested more. voice-verified

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