Consider my investment in a piece of equipment that generates X revenue and Y profit that gets taxed at 28% plus my schedule SE rate of about 15%.

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But if, like most of us, you hold your nest egg in a savings account, a money market fund, real estate, or a 401(k) plan then what you care about is your real rate of return, not the inflation rate per se.

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"I think what they will talk about is not the exchange rate per se, but the importance in allowing market determination of exchange rates, " says Baily, who added that it is his opinion that the dollar probably needs to decline by another 15% to 20% in order to make a serious dent in the deficit.

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