Learn about purchasing power, its effect on currency value, and how inflation influences what one unit of money can buy.

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Inflation isn’t a four-letter word, but the way that everyone from economists to TV pundits to politicians talks about it, it might as well be. Even if you don’t know exactly how inflation works, ...

Retail inflation in August 2025 increased slightly to 2.07 per cent from an eight-year low of 1.61 per cent in July 2025. The increase in the headline inflation and food inflation in August is mainly ...