Inflation EATING Your Investment Returns - Here's Why!

Your Cash Is Going Backwards & Your savings are shrinking. Quietly. If inflation is running at four or five percent and your money is sitting in cash, you are not standing still. You are going backwards. Tim Slattery's observation on the podcast was that most people have never actually done that subtraction. The balance goes up slightly each year, so it feels like progress. In real terms it is erosion.