It's never been easy to have a hard landing. So your preferred scenario would be to see someone like Paul Volcker step in and take the medicine now. The pricing of gold is very much a function of what you hold it instead of financial assets, which is if you don't press financial assets to hold the value, you go to gold. If you're looking at traditional asset classes, businesses, equity, bonds, I think you need to keep your eyes on cash flows, growth and risk.
If you know you’re impatient, then value investing isn’t for you. Aswath Damodaran teaches corporate finance and valuation at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Motley Fool CEO Tom Gardner caught up with the “Dean of Valuation” for a discussion on: - Inflation’s new questions for investors - Tesla valuations (from $50 billion to $1 trillion) - Incentives, correlations, and costs in ESG scoring - Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the companies they've built
Stocks mentioned on the show: TSLA, MO, BLK, AMZN
If you're a member of any Motley Fool service you can access the full interview here: https://www.fool.com/premium/live/video/4056/coverage/2022/08/31/navigating-inflation-behavioral-investing-and-mark/
Host: Tom Gardner Guest: Aswath Damodaran Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Austin Morgan
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