But now what starts to happen is you really get stagnant and falling standards of living because savings, which are typically in a capitalist system, invested
into productive assets is what in fact improves your standard of living.
Not exact matches
Our smiles will broaden when we have redeployed Berkshire's excess funds
into more
productive assets.»
BCI seeks investment opportunities around the world and across a range of
asset classes that convert savings
into productive capital.
2008 global financial crisis, world HNW and MC's, flooded back
into US, driving USD strength, flatlined global economy, decelrating trade, collapse of commodity values, reduction in opportunity horizon of Manufacturing and
Productive EM, along with debt dynamics in China accelerating (Money Printing,
Asset Bloat) and staid developed world horizons and Equity bloat in US.
If we take money out of other very
productive asset classes to put
into gold, the portfolio return would likely decline.
If you are putting money
into real estate hoping to make money from price increases, you aren't treating real estate as a
productive asset, but instead as a speculative
asset.
Small - cap value stocks historically have been the most
productive of all major U.S.
asset classes, and they boost the compound return of Portfolio 4 to 10.3 %, enough to turn that initial $ 100,000 investment
into just shy of $ 10.1 million.