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How on earth can you not know why those things protect you from inflation? Precisely because they are productive investments that return money in the future and that future money is higher, precisely because of inflation.

The mechanism that protects a stock and a farm from inflation is exactly the same which is why it's not a moot point, it's the entire reason why we have inflation as a policy goal. You're supposed to go out there, work and expand your business, hire people and make the economy productive again!




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