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by SV_BubbleTime 928 days ago
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?
3 comments
randomdata 928 days ago
> 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.

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tunesmith 928 days ago
We didn't experience 50% inflation; investing in those parts of the stock market meant that the investment went up by more than inflation.
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anigbrowl 928 days ago
Which country are you living in? The US does not have rampant inflation.
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