losing the value of cash savings

lluzers
lluzers Posts: 133 Forumite
edited 9 October 2017 at 4:21PM in Savings & investments
Most people here suffer from the "Dunning Kruger effect"

The people putting their monies in cash , think they are smart and earning a profit , they don't know that their 0.5 % interest income has been losing buying power for the last 45 years .45 years ago the printing presses for money printing started , same home you bought for £15,000 in 1972 , you will pay £1m for it .The buying power of your money is going down.

Pensioners have been screwed by governments for last 45 years , nowadays they borrow from pensioners via gilts at 0.25 %???.The buying power of your cash will keep going down.

£100k invested in cash today will be worth £15k buying power in 20 years.
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  • steampowered
    steampowered Posts: 6,176 Forumite
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    lluzers wrote: »
    Pensioners have been screwed by governments for last 45 years

    I strongly object to this insinuation.

    It shouldn't be the job of government to act as an investment bank. It certainly shouldn't be the job of government to subsidise people's savings.

    People are perfectly capable of making their own investments.
  • teddysmum
    teddysmum Posts: 9,471 Forumite
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    I think people are quite aware that their money is losing value as you could buy a bag of chips or make a phone call for 4d in the 1950s/60s and in the 1920,my mum told me she used to buy a 'poke bag' (about 4oz) of sweets for a farthing (quarter of an old penny) and a large loaf of bread for 1d.


    Houses are much dearer now, but not as dear when you consider that incomes were much much lower in the 1970s. I earned about £100 a week as a teacher and this was huge compared to the £12 I earned as an unqualified teacher three years previously.


    Is your post meant to make people miserable or to imply that you know of better ways of dealing with money ?
  • lluzers
    lluzers Posts: 133 Forumite
    steampowered wrote: »
    I strongly object to this insinuation.

    It shouldn't be the job of government to act as an investment bank. It certainly shouldn't be the job of government to subsidise people's savings.

    People are perfectly capable of making their own investments.

    Governments control interest rates , they borrow from savers , cash savers like pensioners have their money in cash.If savers really have a level playing field and controlled the interest rates , I would agree in a free market.

    The governments use borrowings to pay off past debts , with new debts , the past debts at today's buying power of the cash borrowed, is another tax on cash savers.
  • eskbanker
    eskbanker Posts: 30,846 Forumite
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    teddysmum wrote: »
    Is your post meant to make people miserable or to imply that you know of better ways of dealing with money ?
    Seems to me that OP's posts are, intentionally or not, textbook examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action....
  • lluzers
    lluzers Posts: 133 Forumite
    teddysmum wrote: »


    Houses are much dearer now, but not as dear when you consider that incomes were much much lower in the 1970s. I earned about £100 a week as a teacher and this was huge compared to the £12 I earned as an unqualified teacher three years previously.

    In 1979 affordability was 7 times house prices for me , today's it is 20 times .
  • bigadaj
    bigadaj Posts: 11,531 Forumite
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    lluzers wrote: »
    In 1979 affordability was 7 times house prices for me , today's it is 20 times .

    Exactly, the government has made many of those poor pensioners millionaires simply by buying an average priced property and waiting a few decades.
  • lluzers
    lluzers Posts: 133 Forumite
    bigadaj wrote: »
    Exactly, the government has made many of those poor pensioners millionaires simply by buying an average priced property and waiting a few decades.

    The early pensioners lived in council houses and had cash in the building society earning 4 to 8 % a year.
  • aroominyork
    aroominyork Posts: 2,820 Forumite
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    bigadaj wrote: »
    Exactly, the government has made many of those poor pensioners millionaires simply by buying an average priced property and waiting a few decades.
    Conclusion: a prime sector to invest in is companies specialising in equity release.
  • lluzers
    lluzers Posts: 133 Forumite
    aroominyork wrote: »
    Conclusion: a prime sector to invest in is companies specialising in equity release.
    Agreed

    But this sector makes money by screwing the pensioners with property , leaving their homes in the hands of these sector.
  • stoozie1
    stoozie1 Posts: 656 Forumite
    lluzers, are you a pensioner with cash savings which are reducing due to inflation?

    This site and the wise people on here can give you some excellent pointers if so.
    Save 12 k in 2018 challenge member #79
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