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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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Stocks and Economic Substance - Is There a Way Out?

I thought the line early in the essay stocks and economic substance are really very similar to bonds with something that like I needed to reread again today. You know, retaining earnings to drive growth was was a big part of the evolution of equities from the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s. And then rising multiples for a decade. That unlike in 1977 when we were right in the middle of this, you know, stagnating equity market that it gone sideways at that point in the decade. We're just now recalibrating to this massive sugar high that we had where somehow people thought it was normal that we shut down the world in response to covet.

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