{"id":565,"date":"2020-12-08T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpswp.com\/cswans-new\/?p=565"},"modified":"2020-12-08T17:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:15:18","slug":"reasons-for-inflation-and-why-you-should-plan-for-it-in-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpswp.com\/cswans\/2020\/12\/08\/reasons-for-inflation-and-why-you-should-plan-for-it-in-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons For Inflation And Why You Should Plan For It In Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Inflation is a reality in all economies, and generally occurs for one of two reasons, know as “demand-push” or “cost-pull.” Businesses and companies that want to retain their employees have to insulate them to some degree against the rising and falling of the value of a dollar. This means that few people will generally feel the full effects of the rising costs of living throughout the course of their working lifetime. The people that do generally feel and understand its full effect are elderly or people living on a fixed financial base of some kind. Here is a brief overview of the two types of inflation and why you should plan for it in retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Cost-Push<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the cost of providing goods or services goes up, businesses pass these increases on to the consumer<\/a>. One example of this is the minimum wage. When businesses have to pay their employees $8 an hour, they charge a corresponding amount for their goods or services to cover the cost of wages. If the minimum wage rises to $10, however, then they raise the price of their goods and services to adjust for the increase they now have to pay in wages. This creates an increase almost across the board in goods and services. Thus a person making a $10 minimum wage is no better off than when they were making $8 an hour<\/a>, but they are also not worse<\/em> off, since they did at least receive an increase in pay to adjust for the increase in the cost of goods and services. The people this affects negatively<\/em>, however, are people living on a fixed income because their income generally does not adjust accordingly to the rise in prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Demand – Pull<\/p>\n\n\n\n