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Detailed explanation-1: -In an inflationary environment, unevenly rising prices inevitably reduce the purchasing power of some consumers, and this erosion of real income is the single biggest cost of inflation. Inflation can also distort purchasing power over time for recipients and payers of fixed interest rates.

Detailed explanation-2: -Inflation makes your money worth less, so you’ll have to spend more for the same goods and services. In short, when inflation increases, your purchasing power decreases.

Detailed explanation-3: -Inflation reduces a currency’s purchasing power and what that currency can buy. Loss of purchasing power has the effect of an increase in prices. To measure purchasing power in the traditional economic sense, you could compare the price of a good or service against a price index such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI).