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Your
money
is losing
ground.

The dollar has lost 87% of its purchasing power since 1971[1]. The same paycheck buys less every year. This site explains why, and what to do about it.

WHAT $1 BUYS OVER TIME $ 1971 Full dollar $1.00 purchasing power 1.00 $ 1980 Sixty-two cents 0.62 $ 1990 Forty-nine cents 0.49 $ 2000 Thirty-eight cents 0.38 $ 2010 28 cents 0.28 $ 2026 13¢ Your dollar today. 0.13 of 1971 purchasing power SOURCE: BLS CPI-U INFLATION CALCULATOR
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SOURCES
  1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI Inflation Calculator, bls.gov
  2. Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), M2 Money Stock (M2SL), fred.stlouisfed.org
  3. Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin Whitepaper (2008), bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
  4. CoinGecko historical price data (BTC CAGR, 10-year trailing), coingecko.com

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