Getting Real about Interest Rates Education
The bucket is holding your purchasing power, so it is actually holding all of the things you could buy. Now imagine there is a faucet above the bucket dripping purchasing power into the bucket. But the bucket also has a small hole in the bottom, allowing your purchasing power to leak out. If the bucket has purchasing power dripping in and leaking out at the same time, what will happen to the level of your purchasing power in the bucket? Here is an easy, step-by-step guide to calculating the real interest rate. To understand the concept of the real interest…