Inflation Investing: A Guide for the 2010s, Volume 1 (Essentials for Creating a Portfolio)

If you’re like many investors, you thought that inflation was on its way to becoming a serious problem in 2008. Gold hit a $1000 an ounce, up from a low around $250 earlier in the decade. Oil reached almost a $150 a barrel, well above its previous high around $40. Despite soaring commodity prices, government inflation figures however somehow indicated inflation was barely elevated. And then the Credit Crisis came along and commodity prices collapsed along with the global economy. The major economies then began the biggest global money-printing spree in history. While this has always led to massive inflation since the days of the Roman Empire, the monetary authorities claimed things would be different this time (they never are). By 2011, gold, the ultimate inflation barometer, was almost $2000 an ounce, silver broke through its previous high of $21 and almost hit $50 an ounce, copper hit a new all-time high and cotton broke a peak price that had held for a 150-years. Global food prices reached a new record high.

The unfolding inflation story was correctly and accurately predicted by author Montgomery at the meetings of the New York Investing meetup, a group of over 3000 independent investors that provides the public with independent, unbiased investing education and in his blog the ‘Helicopter Economics Investing Guide’. People who paid attention made money, sometimes lots of money, while the average investor was struggling with the market. Dutch Radio cited the New York Investing meetup as the only group it found that got its members profitably through the Credit Crisis.

The inflation around 2010 was only the beginning and it is likely it will continue throughout this decade and maybe even into the 2020s. The big opportunities in inflation investing are still ahead of us. Inflation Investing – A Comprehensive Guide for the 2000s provides the key to taking advantage of them. Readers will obtain a thorough knowledge and understanding of inflation and how to build a portfolio of appropriate assets. It shows how history demonstrates what the best inflation investing assets are – and that some of today’s popularly held beliefs about inflation are incorrect. The past also provides valuable clues about how inflation will develop in the 2000s. Similar events happen over and over again during inflationary eras and investors who are not prepared for them will find their portfolios are at risk.

Inflation Investing – A Comprehensive Guide for the 2000s is a highly readable, engaging account that can benefit investors at all levels. Unlike other works, it combines historical analysis with practical easy to implement investing information. It doesn’t just discuss a few favored recommendations of the author, but is thorough in its coverage. It is also as up to date as possible, going way beyond the limited asset choices available in the 1970s. Volume 1 covers the broad-based analysis that all inflation investors should be familiar with along with how to create an appropriate portfolio. Volume II provides detailed descriptions of each major inflation-investing asset class along with specific investing possibilities.