Money & Markets

Inflation, exchange rates, saving, investing and the mechanics behind the headlines. How money behaves, why prices move, and what any of it means for what you earn and hold.

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Why prices moved before your salary did

Inflation is usually explained as "prices going up". That framing hides the part that actually affects you: prices and incomes do not move at the same speed, and the gap between them is where the damage happens.

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