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Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by elzbardico on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:19AM (#44028558)
Please remember that this is from 10 years ago. For wealth comparison, you need to take into account the valuation of assets in this period. What the author says about 700M, is probably roughly equivalent to today's 5 billions.
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by gus_massa on Monday May 19, 2025 @08:26AM (#44029087)
Nah, inflation in USA is not so high. [Hi from Argentina!] From this site https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2015?amount=70000... it look like 700M in 2015 is almost 1B now.
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by jeanlucas on Monday May 19, 2025 @09:48AM (#44029881)
The American inflation is nowhere close to this high
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by gruez on Monday May 19, 2025 @09:57AM (#44029992)
>What the author says about 700M, is probably roughly equivalent to today's 5 billions.

The cumulative inflation for the past 10 years is 35.6%, not 7x as you imply.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL

Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by Majromax on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:11AM (#44030136)
> The cumulative inflation for the past 10 years

Without taking a stand on which metric is better for social and lifestyle comparisons, the grandparent poster said 'valuation of assets' rather than inflation. Per Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ESP500TR/), the S&P500 is about 340% of its mid-2015 level on a total return basis (reinvesting dividends).

Today's $700-millionaire would have been a 'mere' $200-millionaire in mid-2015 if invested fully in equities. That allocation is probably ballpark reasonable, since with that kind of net worth investment horizons are very long (multiple generations of inheritors) and the investors themselves can be nearly risk-neutral rather than risk-averse.

Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by gruez on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:25AM (#44030261)
>the S&P500 is about 340% of its mid-2015 level on a total return basis (reinvesting dividends).

I appreciate the correction, but that's still nowhere near the 7x that the OP was talking about.