[Racing0461]

Agreed. Because the stock market rose 50% in a year and their money is just most likely in index funds?

[SV_BubbleTime]

Hang on, am I missing something?

We have rampant inflation - why would you not expect the NUMBER attached to the stock market to go up?

[randomdata]

> We have rampant inflation

Do we? I could have sold wheat for $15 per bushel two years ago. Now I'm lucky if I can get $7. It looks more and more like a disinflationary/deflationary environment to me.

CPI continues to show inflation, but the CPI basket measures that which at the end of the supply chain (it is a consumer index, after all), which means that it always lags significantly behind what's going on in the rest of the world.

[tunesmith]

We didn't experience 50% inflation; investing in those parts of the stock market meant that the investment went up by more than inflation.

[anigbrowl]

Which country are you living in? The US does not have rampant inflation.