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The Inflation Tax on Your Savings Account
In Episode 28 of Inflation and Your Money, Lucas and Luna dig into how inflation is quietly taxing cash savings even as the Fed holds interest rates near 3.6 percent. With the S&P 500 at 7,610 and gold pulling back slightly, the hosts explain why a standard savings account yielding 0.5 percent is losing 2.5 percent real purchasing power every year. They walk through the math of a $10,000 emergency fund eroding to roughly $9,000 after two years of 3 percent inflation, and discuss practical alternatives like high-yield savings, Treasury money market funds, and short-duration bond ETFs. The…
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