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Inflation can affect the value of currency and have far-reaching effects on your personal finances. However, there’s one investment that can never be affected by inflation: your skillset.
The negative effects would include an increase in the opportunity cost of holding money; uncertainty over future inflation, which may discourage investment and savings; and, if inflation were rapid enough, shortages of goods as consumers begin hoarding out of concern that prices will increase in the future.
The U.S. housing bubble is one example of asset price inflation.. Asset price inflation is the economic phenomenon whereby the price of assets rise and become inflated. A common reason for higher asset prices is low interest rates. [1]
An inflation hedge is an investment intended to protect the investor against—hedge—a decrease in the purchasing power of money—inflation. There is no investment known to be a successful hedge in all inflationary environments, just as there is no asset class guaranteed to increase in value in non-inflationary times.
After a hot December jobs report pared back investor's hopes for interest rate cuts in 2025, two key inflation readings will add to the discussion in the week ahead.
No investment always goes up in value, and that’s certainly true of bonds in an inflationary environment. But even if bonds go down in price, they may have value on a relative basis.
Related is the concept of "risk return", which is the rate of return minus the risks as measured against the safest (least-risky) investment available. Thus if a loan is made at 15% with an inflation rate of 5% and 10% in risks associated with default or problems repaying, then the "risk adjusted" rate of return on the investment is 0%.
Real estate is generally a “good investment” during times of inflation, according to Buffett. “They’re the businesses that you buy once and then you don’t have to keep making capital ...