Are Eye Bonds Really the Best Way to Combat Inflation?

E bonds came around there first issued in 19 98, and they were designed to keep up with inflation. You are supposed to get a fixed rate of interest plus an adjustment for inflation to help combat some of that. And so as we sit here to day hearing about what eye bonds are returning, something like seven %, we merely start thinking, oh, men, are these things that i should be taking advantige? Is this, in fact, the best way to combat inflation?