We showed this chart to someone and they remarked, "Oh good, the dollar is stabilizing."
This is a year over year chart of the change in the dollar, expressed in percents.
What this chart shows is that the US dollar is locked into a nice, steady annual decline of about 12%.
That's 12% annual decline. That means you need to MAKE a 12% return on those dollar assets just to break even.
It should also give you some idea of where the rate of monetary inflation is, and its not at the headline core rate put out by the propeller heads at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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