Are Financial Stocks Good During Inflation?

“Investors should continue to keep equities since stocks normally outperform in times of inflation, especially if it is accompanied by growth.” Consumer staples stocks, such as food and energy, perform well during inflation because demand for staples is inelastic, giving these companies more pricing power because they can increase their prices more quickly than other […]

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Is US Inflation Coming?

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS When the global financial crisis hit in 2008, Queen Elizabeth II famously remarked, “Why didn’t anyone see it coming?” when visiting the London School of Economics. The high inflation of 2021 should raise the same concern, particularly in the United States, where year-on-year increases in consumer prices reached a four-decade high of 7%

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