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It is generally believed that our savings can be safe if they are invested in real assets. This is not always true, and if it is, it is not fully true either in democratic regimes. In this chapter, we identify and briefly discuss a few typical real capital assets that are common investment targets.
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This means that there is a net cash outflow necessary to “carry” this asset in inventory.
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I am not aware of the tax considerations associated with this perspective.
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Ref. Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf’s Working Paper 57, from the American Association of Wine Economists, March 2010.
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Masset, Philippe (Lausanne Hotel School) and Weisskopf, Jean-Philippe (University of Fribourg). (March 2010). Raise Your Glass: Wine Investment and the Financial Crisis. American Association of Wine Economists. Working Paper 57. Retrieved October 2015 from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228937213_Raise_your_Glass_Wine_Investment_and_the_Financial_Crisis.
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Arisson, M. (2018). Real Capital Assets. In: Investing in the Age of Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95903-0_9
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