ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -How Inflation Shrinks Savings. Let’s say you have $100 in a savings account that pays a 1% interest rate. After a year, you will have $101 in your account. But if the rate of inflation is running at 2%, you would need $102 to have the same buying power that you started with.

Detailed explanation-2: -There’s no sure way to protect your money from the effects of inflation. The only rule is that cash savings accounts are generally not the best places to put your money long term – the interest is almost always lower than inflation, so your buying power is reduced.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rising inflation erodes the purchasing power of a bond’s future (fixed) coupon income, reducing the present value of its future fixed cash flows. Accelerating inflation is even more detrimental to longer-term bonds, given the cumulative impact of lower purchasing power for cash flows received far in the future.

Detailed explanation-4: -The impact inflation has on the time value of money is that it decreases the value of a dollar over time. The time value of money is a concept that describes how the money available to you today is worth more than the same amount of money at a future date.