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Re: What is The Negative Effect of Inflation on Household Savings?
by
shinratensei_
on 17/06/2024, 09:30:59 UTC
In my opinion, the impact of inflation on household savings could be negative if the increase in goods on the market is uncontrolled, thereby reducing purchasing power. However, inflation can have various impacts on society, both positive and negative, depending on a number of factors including the level of inflation and the industrial sector.
its always the purchasing power that plummets and yet people just overlook it, the inflation affects heavily on household saving even more apparent with the monthly spending of a household its not rare that nowaday people hardly save money because they struggle to make ends meet.
so it does have negative impact but good thing world economic condition has been getting better since pandemic now most of inflation rate also keeps up with salary growth but we definitely not talking about blue collar job with stagnating income, the government really need to look into that.

Inflation has a negative impact on household savings. This is because inflation erodes the purchasing power of money, making it more difficult for households to save. As prices rise, the value of money decreases, reducing the real value of savings. Additionally, inflation can lead to a decrease in the standard of living, making it harder for households to save. For example, a study found that nearly three in four lower-income households are saving less due to inflation, and those with no emergency savings are more likely to have less than $500 in the bank.

If you want to be more specific, you can press the link below:
https://typeset.io/questions/what-are-the-effects-of-inflation-in-household-savings-and-3sle1raddy
https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/effects-of-inflation-on-lower-income-emergency-funds/
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/households-response-wealth-effects-inflation

makes me wonder if the average household could overcome this, investing won't be any better either, since its mostly time constraint and most of household can't afford their money locked for period of time, also APY sometime doesn't really outweigh inflation even if we invest in the high performing investment, the investment that has higher APY always carries risk, most household also can't risk of losing money and then become homeless.
those definition above is good to understand how purchasing power is the one that got affected most, but finding solution is also hard thing.

the fact that based on your study mentioned that lower income household having hard time saving means they are just few steps away from poverty.