Briefly describe inflation, that is, paper money is getting less and less valuable, while the prices of things are getting higher and higher. What you can do is to spend your money as soon as possible and replace it with something that will increase in price. This is the meaning of "investment". It should be noted that the prices of all kinds of things are in order.
The first is the soaring housing prices, because the inevitable result of economic development is the improvement of urbanization rate. More and more people will leave the countryside and come to cities to seek development. There are few people in the city, and there are not so many houses to live in, so house prices begin to rise. It is characterized by the fact that the housing prices in economically developed big cities rank first, and will gradually spread to second-and third-tier cities, and finally even the housing prices in small cities will rise. When will house prices fall? Only when the urbanization process slows down will house prices really come down. According to the current trend, the urbanization process will not slow down before 2020.
Secondly, the price of basic commodities is high, which is commonly referred to as the bull market of raw material futures. With the development of economy, people need to consume a lot of high-grade commodities, and most of these commodities are supported by basic commodities, such as copper, aluminum, lead, oil, soybeans and so on. More than 20 years ago, people in China could only ride bicycles, and the whole bicycle was only a few dozen catties of iron. Now everyone wants to buy a car, which consumes more resources. All kinds of resources add up, a car weighs at least one ton, including steel, copper, aluminum, rubber and so on, and finally it has to burn gasoline. Once everyone wants to buy a car, the existing resources will soon be exhausted, so the prices of non-ferrous metals, steel and fuel will start to skyrocket. The same is true of the soaring prices of agricultural products. Originally, everyone was vegetarian, but now we have to improve our food and start eating meat. But raising pigs is a waste of resources. 5 kg of feed can only produce 1 kg of pork, which is equivalent to pigs and people scrambling to eat, so agricultural products like soybeans are in short supply. Brazil has cut down almost all its own rainforests (with an average annual reduction of nearly 30,000 square kilometers) to make room for growing soybeans, but it still can't meet the needs of China people.
The stock market soared again. As a direct result of economic development, the profits of enterprises began to climb, and the money in the pockets of ordinary people began to increase. In addition to consumption, people also want to manage money and Qian Shengqian. Once the stock market rises, it will attract new investors to participate, and then attract people to come in. This is a positive feedback cycle, and the result is the arrival of a big bull market.
All this happened a long time ago, but there are still some changes taking place now, and not many people can pay attention to it. A few years ago, the Royal Mint was very angry with some British people because they melted all the coins of 1p and 2p and sold them as copper blocks. It is said that the money earned is more than twice the face value of coins. This kind of investment opportunity is far away and close at hand. The price of China silver dollar has been depressed for a long time. More than a year ago, the price of a Yuan Datou of the Republic of China was only a few tens of dollars, and a big head contained 23 grams of silver. At present, the price of silver is soaring, about one gram of 3 yuan, so the price of light silver is above that of 80 yuan, which means you can make money by buying Yuan Datou as scrap silver. This risk-free arbitrage opportunity was fleeting, and the value of Yuan Datou soared immediately.
Other things that will increase in price make you almost puzzled, or completely random. For example, Pu 'er tea and koi fish, the prices of these two products initially rose because some rich people planned to improve their taste in life, so they spent money on them. With their demonstration effect, others followed suit slowly. The market for these two things used to be very small, because more people bought them, and the prices quickly went up. The soaring price immediately attracted a group of speculators to participate, and finally the price was fired to an incredible level.
With the skyrocketing stock market, there will be a collateral effect, that is, the popularity of the collectible market. In the late 1980s, the Japanese bought almost half of the world famous paintings. Van Gogh's painting Iris was bought by Japanese businessmen for $53.9 million, while the original valuation of this painting was $6,543.8+0.5 million, and the auction price of 654.38+0.947 was $80,000. Van Gogh never dreamed that his paintings could fetch such a high price. When he was alive, he always sold only one painting, or he bought it because the other side sympathized with his tragic situation. Van Gogh failed to make a living by selling paintings all his life, and his economic source depended entirely on his younger brother. Van Gogh himself suffered from serious mental illness. This iris was created by Van Gogh in a mental hospital. Later, Van Gogh's younger brother got into trouble and could not continue to support him. The desperate painter shot himself at the age of 37.
At that time, Japanese stocks and real estate were soaring. It is said that the value of real estate in Tokyo exceeds the sum of all real estate in the United States. Japanese worship western culture, so the first thing they do after making money is to buy the best works of art in Europe. China people probably won't buy European and American artworks, because China people have their own culture. There is an old saying in China: gold is hidden in troubled times, and jade is hidden in prosperous times. In the past two years, the price of jade will rise rapidly. China people's love for jade is unparalleled in the world. Even the Olympic gold medals are inlaid with beautiful jade, which is the first time in the history of the Olympic Games.
The price of jadeite will rise mainly because it is a non-renewable natural resource, and it will be gone after digging. For example, the world-famous Hetian jade has been excavated by various advanced technologies, but it can be excavated less and less. We need to mention "Yu Shuhua" in particular here. I think this market is a depression at present, and there will be great room for appreciation in the future. Tree-shaped jade is actually a kind of silicified wood, which is found all over the world, but only the silicified wood in Myanmar has become tree-shaped jade, and it has only been discovered for a short period of five years. In the long geological changes, most trees have turned into coal, and a few have changed from wood to stone under the action of geothermal liquid (silicon dioxide). Only in Myanmar, silicified wood has become jadeite and has become a transparent jade shape. Therefore, Shuhuayu still retains the appearance of a tree, which contains rings and even fossils of insects. Other jade is only jade, and Shuhua jade is also a fossil. Because it is a fossil, the government forbids digging. Fortunately, it is only produced in Myanmar. Although the government there also prohibits it, bribing him is to turn a blind eye. Today's mining technology can't be compared with the past. In the past, jade was dug by hand, and after it was dug out, it could only be transported by mule cart. The supply is so large that only princes and nobles can consume it. After a long time, it gives people a very valuable feeling. It is only a few years since Yu Shuhua's discovery. The Burmese dug it up by various means and then transported it out by truck, resulting in a huge short-term supply. The supply began to dry up before people understood what it was. It takes 200 million years to form this thing, and it only takes 10 years to dig it out. As people gradually realize its value, they will suddenly find that the supply of goods has been cut off, so the price will inevitably skyrocket.
The above is the order of price increase of various commodities, from house prices to basic commodities (raw materials), then stocks, then daily necessities, and finally collectibles. If you just hold the money in your hand, you will never win inflation. Only by investing money in things that will go up can you beat inflation and make considerable profits. This is the fundamental reason for investment. If you can't outrun Liu Xiang, you will lose nothing. If you can't outrun inflation, you will lose a lot.