Purchasing power

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Updated: Aug 20, 2021

The amount of real goods and services each unit of money will buy. Purchasing power is thus the reciprocal of a suitable price index: if prices go up, the purchasing power of money goes down.

Reference: Oxford Press Dictonary of Economics, 5th edt.


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