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Inflation doesn't hurt everyone equally — who has real pricing power, and who benefits from holding real assets.
Companies with a strong brand or a product with no close substitute can raise prices at a pace similar to or faster than inflation without losing significant customers — so their profitability holds up or even improves while costs rise.
Physical assets like real estate and commodities tend to hold (or even gain) real value during inflationary periods, unlike financial assets fixed in nominal terms (like fixed-rate bonds) whose real value erodes.
Companies with thin margins and strong price competition struggle to pass rising costs on to customers, and get hit directly on margins. Consumers on fixed incomes also lose purchasing power.
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