Given that I'm an avid gold and silver trader in my spare time, it always seemed more sensible to put my emergency funds in that, while enjoying the appreciation and
hedge against inflation today.
Not exact matches
Today's post is about one issue I raised in the post last month: What asset classes — if any — are useful in
hedging against inflation?
Debt is a
hedge against inflation - you get to buy something
today and repay it with less valuable dollars in the future.
Imagine if, in
today's market, someone (let's call her Alice) wanted to invest a few thousand dollars into diamonds as a
hedge against the stock market and
inflation.