Why wouldn't they? If the company is healthy the dividends paid will reflect macroeconomic inflationary processes. I don't think "you don't want to beat inflat

Why wouldn't they? If the company is healthy the dividends paid will reflect macroeconomic inflationary processes. I don't think "you don't want to beat inflation?!?!?!" is a good faith interpretation of what I'm talking about higher up in the thread - which is rampant speculation for the publicly traded companies, and behavior tantamount to rug pulls in the case of private equity.