TIPS Shunt: Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt TIPS » TIPS Shunt » Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition » College of Medicine » University of Florida A nurse or technologistwill insert an intravenous line into a vein in your hand or arm to administer a sedative. A government bond is issued by a government at the federal, state, or local level to raise debt capital. TIPS first appeared in 1997, and the official reason for their appearance is that there was strong demand from the investing public for inflation-linked government securities. You can include TIPS and funds that hold TIPS in an individual retirement account; however, you cannot use the TreasuryDirect service to buy them directly in an IRA. TIPS are meant to keep up with inflation, not beat inflation, thus you can have a nominal yield on TIPS that is positive but a real yield that is effectively zero. Note that while the yield on TIPS may be negative, their principal value will increase with...