1.   The securities will pay a real rate of return, based on the auction price, plus an inflation adjustment.

2.   And if the pensions that supply the balance of your current income have some kind of inflation adjustment, so much the better.

3.   Any talk of reducing the inflation adjustment would certainly bring howls that many politicians would rather not hear.

4.   As for the third leg of your income stream, you would have to make inflation adjustments there yourself.

5.   Before you make that move, examine the terms regarding the inflation adjustments.

6.   --A bigger annual inflation adjustment for Medicare payments.

7.   After all, inflation adjustments are made on the basis of the Consumer Price Index.

8.   Companies which owed money booked gains from inflation adjustments because the real value of debt fell as prices rose.

9.   Democrats said the proposed increase in the Medicare premium would reduce or wipe out the annual inflation adjustment in Social Security checks for many people.

10.   Enjoy it while you can, because Congress is debating whether inflation adjustments have been overstated and should be modified in coming years.