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Re:The End of Retirement (2014) by Clubber on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:01PM (#27222905)
This is correct. Ever since the US allowed consumer banks and commercial banks to merge, savings rate is usually less than a point, if that.

Putting money in a savings account is actually losing value at the rate of inflation - interest. Inflation is usually around 2-3%, interest is a point or less. (last time I checked).

I think the downvote was the comment wasn't entirely relevant to what the OP was trying to demonstrate and might have gotten into the weeds a bit, but I don't know why people downvote. Who knows, it could have been a mis-click. Just say what you want to say, downvotes be damned.

Re:The End of Retirement (2014) by reedjosh on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:03PM (#27222928)
And a typical 30yr mortgage rate is ~3% right now.

https://www.zillow.com/refinance/

> gotten into the weeds a bit

Fair

> downvotes be damned.

Good advice.