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Reflections on Buffett’s Famous Essay, ”How Inflation Swindles the Equity Investor”

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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Investing in Intangible Assets in the US

Berkshire and Sequoia had a very large portion of their respective portfolios in the second half of the 70s. Typically those industries deploy largely intangible assets. Their revenue sources tend to be tied more to nominal GDP, then to real GDP. Over longer stretches of prolonged inflation, those companies can turn higher nominal levels of revenue into better R.O.E.s.

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