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Opinion: Worried about inflation? Here’s how investments did in the 1970s

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MarketWatch/Brett Arends/7-19-2021

Antique image of Alfred E Neumann asking 'Me Worry?"“Readers may be excused for thinking something similar about the latest stories about looming, threatening, surging, terrifying inflation. Yes, the inflation forecasts were surging months ago, and hit 8-year highs. Had they continued there would be grounds to worry. But they haven’t continued. On the contrary, they’ve been falling for two months.”

USAGOLD note: How anyone could assemble an analysis on the performance of various assets during the inflationary 1970s and exclude gold and silver is a bit puzzling. Arends includes energy stocks (+73%), REITs (+36%), T-Bills (-6%), utilities (-9%) the S&P 500 corporate bonds (-23%) and 10-year Treasuries (-38%), but excludes gold (+922%) and silver (+596%). By the way, inflation “forecasts” may have fallen for two months, but inflation itself, as we all know by now, is surging.

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