By Chris Mayer in DailyWealth:
In the past few years, there's been an explosion of investor interest in "hedges."
Investors want to own foreign real estate for a hedge against a big depression in the United States. They want to own gold for a hedge against a dollar crisis. They want to own oil for a hedge against inflation.
But consider this "hedge factor"... Between 1941 and 2002, average farmland values outpaced the growth of inflation by 2%.
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