A self-financing investor with consumption satisfies and . The Itô product rule and give the displayed equation. For a positive local martingale deflator , the first term is a stochastic integral against the vector of deflated asset-price local martingales, not their current levels.
If wealth and consumption are nonnegative, this local martingale is bounded below by minus the finite initial deflated capital. Adding that capital gives a nonnegative local martingale, hence a supermartingale by the Conditional Fatou lemma. Consequently expected discounted consumption cannot exceed initial deflated wealth. The consumption sign and predictable stochastic integrability are part of the hypotheses.
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