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by Nemi 1212 days ago
I agree. What we have seen over the past decade+ has been asset inflation. This is exactly the same as goods inflation (what we are seeing now), except that asset inflation seems like a good thing at first blush. People want their assets to go up in price. It makes them feel rich. But assets should be priced based on what they return to you in future dollars, and THAT return has been going down and down over the past decade. This is not a good thing.

What is happening now is that asset inflation is correcting and goods inflation (a related but distinct concept) is taking hold.