Our savings have become financialized. Most of us aren’t saving our retirement money in our bank accounts, we’re doing it through our investment accounts. This is because of inflationary money. To understand this, we need to reiterate how our economy actually encourages investment and penalizes saving. Since the money supply gets larger over time more, every new dollar that gets created reduces the value of every dollar already in existence. This is because there's only a certain amount ...