6 Charts Explaining Inflation: Why it Matters to You and What You Can Do About It

A revolutionary innovation from 1780 can protect your portfolio from inflation

Stephen Foerster
11 min readMay 17, 2021

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In the late 1770s, the Revolutionary War wasn’t going well for America. The British Army had captured Georgia and Charleston South Carolina, and the British Navy was blocking the U.S. eastern…

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Stephen Foerster

I’m a Finance prof, CFA, and author of In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio (with Andrew Lo). I write stories about investing. (I don’t give financial advice.)