Lessons from Investment Gurus

The Most Important Thing

 Successful investing requires thoughtful attention to many separate aspects, all at the same time. 
Omit any one and the result is likely to be less than satisfactory.

The idea of the most important things—each is a brick in a solid wall, and none is dispensable. 

Inflation and the cost of everyday items - One of the consequences of the war between Russia and Ukraine is inflation.  In this #Data is beautiful visualization, you’ll see how inflation has impacted our cost of every day items, like gas, coffee, and corn. (On the bright side, the cost of orange juice went down!) #The Most Important Thing

Data is beautiful

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The connection for a lot of those items is the cost of oil (and fuel), since everything has to be transported somehow.

Grains and oil in particular are affected by the invasion of Ukraine: both are oil-producing countries and Ukraine is kind of the "bread basket of Europe" in terms of grain production. Granted, Europe can just buy from the non-Russian members of OPEC+, but that cuts into what's available for the Americas and Asia, and the USA produces enough grain and soy to be able to supplement the loss of Ukraine's crops...but we'd still need to be able to get it to where it needs to go.

Of course, oil producing countries (including the USA) could ramp up production to account for the impact of the war, too, but...why would they, when the companies in those countries can just raise the price on what they have and enjoy the profits for doing nothing?

The connection for a lot of those items is the cost of oil (and fuel), since everything has to be transported somehow.  Grains and oil in particular are affected by the invasion of Ukraine: both are oil-producing countries and Ukraine is kind of the "bread basket of Europe" in terms of grain production. Granted, Europe can just buy from the non-Russian members of OPEC+, but that cuts into what's available for the Americas and Asia, and the USA produces enough grain and soy to be able to supplement the loss of Ukraine's crops...but we'd still need to be able to get it to where it needs to go.  Of course, oil producing countries (including the USA) could ramp up production to account for the impact of the war, too, but...why would they, when the companies in those countries can just raise the price on what they have and enjoy the profits for doing nothing?

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