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Re:U.S. Inflation Accelerates to 40-Year High by sokoloff on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:58AM (#30289034)
NPV is discounted by a combination of risk-free interest rate and uncertainty. For most investment/capital allocation decisions, the uncertainty term has been dominant for decades already.
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Re:U.S. Inflation Accelerates to 40-Year High by recursivedoubts on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:01PM (#30289092)
yep, obviously

but not much of one when the fed has backstopped everything that matters

another policy error, in my uniformed opinion

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