a hedge against inflation

基本解释

For many years, the conventional wisdom insisted that stocks were a hedge against inflation.
多年來，傳統智慧堅持認爲股票是對通貨膨脹的對沖。
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Investors consider it a hedge against inflation, an attractive quality amid a swelling budget deficit and increased government spending.
投資人認爲黃金可以防止通貨膨脹，在預算赤字不斷擴大和政府開支增加期間獨具吸金特質。
Forbes website has an article that notices how Chinese people are investing more in gold as a hedge against inflation.
福佈斯網站的一篇文章關注中國人爲什麽投資黃金。

And if the future is Japanese-style stagnation, there will be no demand for a hedge against inflation.
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It used to be that gold bugs touted the yellow metal's credentials as a hedge against inflation.
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Since equities are a claim on corporate revenues, surely they ought to be a hedge against inflation risk?
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