Has anyone made some kind of index of cost of living by age? Education inflation doesn’t affect old people much, they’re hedged on housing, Medicaid helps with healthcare—maybe if you’re over 65, your effective inflation rate is zero.
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This would create a really weird dynamic, where young people should be long equities and short fixed income, and old people should do the converse.
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Replying to @ByrneHobart
> weird except ... that's more or less what happens, right? so the "weird" is rhetorical ?
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It’s a weird dynamic because we usually think of fixed income as having a nominal and real yield, not a nominal yield and a real yield *that differs for different investors*.
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Replying to @ByrneHobart
ahhhhh, I take your point
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