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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 Real Purchasing Power of the Equity Market

I think the real purchasing power is a very open question. I welcome the declines we've seen in a lot of assets this year but you know again like let's say you're going to have a 15% return on on your equity capital and because of the, you know, relatively elevated purchase price and taxes and frictional costs that's kind of brought down to maybe 7%. And what if inflation average is only I say only an air quotes 5% so that you know you have a 2% compounded annual gain for the next 5 or 10 years? That would be very different from the equity market,. But it's really over that period if interest rates are going up over the holding period.

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