Re:How inflation swindles the equity investor (1977)
by lotsofpulp on Sunday February 25, 2018 @01:04PM
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Everyone would be in the same boat, so I don’t think you would lose any purchasing power as it is relative.
But if you buy a stock for $1 and it goes to $2 as a result of inflation, you get taxed $0.5 on the $1 gain, but your resulting $1.5 has less purchasing power than the $1 you invested.