Think of inflation as an increase in water level.

Are your assets pile driven into the bottom, like cash?
Or are you floating in a boat, like a stock?


What does it all mean?
There is a trade off with risk and return:
a) If you stubbornly want no risk, your wealth will slowly be robbed by inflation.
b) If you are leveraged into high growth stocks, you can be wiped out by a pull back.

It is an IQ test how you navigate the path in between.


There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps