Inflation Hedging Strategies
Cluster focuses on debates about protecting savings and wealth from inflation's erosive effects on cash, recommending investments in real assets like stocks, real estate, gold, and crypto over hoarding fiat currency.
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Invest into stocks to save yourself from inflation maybe?
He probably means protection against hyper inflation. Any advice for that?
Inflation far outpaces whatever "fat interest" rates you have on your savings. You need to hold real assets, not fiat currency.
Doesn't inflation just encourage a different type of hoarding (ie. in physical assets like real estate or gold)?
If you're worried about inflation, why not invest the money?
I don't lose it because I invest my savings in assets that grow at a rate faster than inflation. Inflation encourages investment, vs hoarding cash with an expectation that paper is going to hold value into the future. It's just paper, it has no productive value. Currency transfers value, assets hold value.TLDR Accumulate assets at favorable prices to invest for your future.<a href="https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/134/3/1225/5435538" re
Not for investment, but for protecting the value from one day to the next, since inflation is 25000%/year.(Iām just hypothesizing here, would love to hear from someone who knows what is going on)
Well, it will save you from inflation. From bullets? Not so much.
The original comment was about protecting yourself against inflation. Not sure how your comment is related.
You have a lot of learning to do my friend.Inflation steals purchasing power away from people who contributed their labor to the market in exchange for the money they received.The cash hoarding that inflation is supposed to solve continues because people want to hold on to their money in risky times.Smart people are moving away from cash assets and into precious metals and real estate. These are tangible things, unlike fiat currency that keeps losing value over time.The US dollar in