[snikeris]

TIPS is like buying fire insurance from an arsonist.

[whitepoplar]

If you're implying that the Fed can rig official inflation rates, that's not really true. The bond markets would treat inflation-rate fibbing as a quasi-default, so the Fed has more to lose than gain from doing this.

[ryanwaggoner]

Sounds perfect: if they have to pay out, they’ll go burn someone else’s building down instead.