"Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse. Most state sponsored murder occurs under the cover of war, revolution, or guerrilla war, or in their aftermath."
R. J. Rummel
The Five Year TIP Yields have crossed up and over the conventional Five Year Treasury Yields for the first time in their admittedly short life span.
That would tend to signal inflation dead ahead. And/or a negative real return on Five Year Treasuries.
It will be interesting to see how those move in the future as the currency crisis unfolds in phase two of the Credit Crisis.
TIP to TIP Spreads