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TIP501: Investing During an Inflationary Environment

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

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The Inflationary Cycle of the 1970s

In January of 2021, the rate of monetary expansion of the US M2 money supply was up over 26% year over year. Lynn Alden explains that the 1970s inflationary time period was largely driven by demographic forces such as baby boomers entering the workforce. During the 1940s, you had these large fiscal deficits that were monetized by the central bank. So you had a lot of extra money in the overall economy.

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