The Money Farm Team

Which Industries Benefit From Inflation?

Sean Markowicz, a strategist at Hartford Funds, recently discovered that five sectors provide positive returns during inflationary periods: utilities, real estate investment trusts, and financials. What industry benefits from inflation? Because energy is an input cost in all economic activity, the energy sector is perhaps the most renowned inflation-resistant sector of the stock market, and

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What Is A Recession In The US?

Although economists and historians disagree about certain 19th-century recessions, the consensus view among economists and historians is that “the cyclical volatility of GDP and unemployment was greater before the Great Depression than it has been since the end of World War II.” Cycles in agricultural production, industrial production, consumption, and business. Recessions in the United

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