Monday, Apr 30, 2007
Why investors are clamoring to take over America's highways, bridges, and airports—and why the public should be nervous
Businessweek: Roads To Riches
A good article on the flight to the inflation protected relational mode of investing represented by infrastructure.
Such a move signals what the "apex" money thinks is the future for currency. Moving into assets which are not adversly affected by things such as a currency crash, is the mark of belief that the end is near for certain currencies. No matter how hyper-inflated things get, you'll still need to eat food, use roads, airlines, bridges and energy and water utilities. The food you use is shipped, trucked or flown. The communications system relies on airplanes and electricity.
Even if the returns aren't stellar (compared to wht people got used to), at least your investment would live through turbulent times.
Ironically, land used to be a great hedge!
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