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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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The Dow Jones Industrial Average - 12% Return on Equity at Book Value

A 12% return on equity at book value is very likely to be only 7% after taxes and after frictional costs, using an assumption payout ratio. He said it seems impossible to me that inflation rates will average 7% in future years close quote. And guess where the Dow Jones was almost exactly 10 years later 1800 It actually hit that a few months early, and then blew right through it in the lead up to the 1987 crash.

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