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> If US prints money, the wealth of all countries holding USD goes down. While the wealth of US increases.

True, yet average Americans lose out because their savings get eaten away by inflation

Real interest rates have been positive. Unless you were saving in a mattress, your purchasing power increased.

Not where I have been living in USA. Food and energy and rent in USA far outstripped interest rates on savings accounts or government bonds.

But for how long? Past year? Ten years? Century?

Wut? Tell me where savings accounts have rates that exceed inflation.