Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury. With everything going on in the world, the notion that inflation could return with a vengeance may materialise. This will be a two part episode. Today, we’ll look at the potential paths for inflation and quickly assets to hold and those not to. Next Monday, we’ll go into further detail about the investment strategies and why each investment does well in certain conditions.   First, what is inflation: In economic terms – Inflation is the measurement of the increase in prices of goods = CPI in measurement terms – basket of goods and how the costs to purchase them changes Central bankers try to use inflation to reduce the real value of the debt to give debtors some relief in the hope that they might spend more and help the economy get moving again Therefore – inflation erodes the real value of a currency – due to prices of a good increasing – reducing your purchase power unless wages increase at same or greater rate – Technically – Extreme levels = Hyperinflation is when the pri