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'Sticky' inflation that doesn't fall as expected forces central banks into hard choices, with different consequences for different asset types.
Persistently high inflation forces a central bank to choose between continuing rate hikes (risking slowing the economy too much) or easing too early (risking letting inflation 'take root'). Both mistakes are costly, and history is full of examples of each.
See Who Benefits From Inflation for the full breakdown — in short: companies with real pricing power and real assets (real estate, commodities) tend to hold value better than nominal financial assets.
If rates stay high longer than the market priced in, that hits exactly the mechanism described in Who Loses When Interest Rates Rise — growth companies with distant earnings and highly leveraged companies get hurt disproportionately.
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