Dividends Offer Decent Protection Against Inflation
Gold, silver and precious metals are obvious choices for protecting your financial assets from inflation. Precious metals basically hedge your cash against losing value. Hopefully if your purchasing power is eroding on your cash, the increased value in your gold holdings compensates and you make out ok. With regards to stocks, dividend stocks are indeed a logical choice for some degree of inflation hedging. Now this works out on a more long-term perspective, but on a short term timeline, Read more [...]
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