His collection of rare stamps from Mauritius is elsewhere--on loan to the British Museum.

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Rare stamps are like fingerprints: They're unique, and you can trace them as they've traded in auctions back almost a hundred years.

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Instead, they seek hedges against the very devaluation sought by monetarists which is most often investment in the wealth of yesterday: think land, commodities, rare stamps, art, etc.

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AuctionWeb, an online auction site, has managed to convey much the same sort of confidence online, and for less established merchants: individuals who use its service to sell anything from rare stamps to used computers.

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Worse, with consumer prices sticky in concert with commodity prices that are most sensitive to dollar-price movements, the beneficiaries of the money illusion tend to be the hard, unproductive assets of yesterday (think housing, art, rare stamps, and oil) that are least vulnerable to currency weakness, and which in fact do best when the unit of account is devalued.

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