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What Rising Prices Do to You Specifically
Not to "the economy". To your salary, your savings and your rent — which move at different speeds, and that is the whole story.
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You put €10,000 aside and left it alone for ten years.
The money is safe. Nobody takes any of it, the bank does not fail, and the number in the app never goes down. The only thing that happens is that everything you were going to buy with it gets more expensive.
What it can still buy
€8,203.48
In today’s prices, after ten years
- Gone
- 17.97%
Nobody sent you a bill for this
2%
2% is what the ECB aims for. The euro area hit 8.4% in 2022.
Compare the 2% target with 5%, and leave under €7,000 standing
- Try 2% — done
- Try 5% — not yet
- Compare the 2% target with 5%, and leave under €7,000 standing — not yet
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