Since last year, governments and central banks around the world have been flooding the markets with money to fight the economic impact of the economic meltdown in 2020. Since then, one of the most frequently mentioned topics in the financial news is inflation. Almost every day, finance professionals and economists pop up warning that all the “money printing” will trigger a higher inflation. You can already see the impact of that money printing on commodity prices. Commodities like lumber, corn or palladium have already started skyrocketing in 2021. So much so that in Berkshire’s latest shareholder meeting, Warren Buffett said that he can already see “very substantial inflation”! And that's bad because commodity prices are an early indicator of inflation. There are other inflation indicators such as the CPI, which stands for Consumer Price Index. The CPI represents a basket of various goods and services. The biggest expense group in that basket is housing which includes
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