This would leave him with 3% less real purchasing power than he has under the current tax system.

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And it will destroy living standards in a country that has no means of financing a current-account deficit and so must eliminate it by shrinking domestic purchasing power.

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Current rates, however, do not come close to offsetting the purchasing-power risk that investors assume.

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Economistics suggests a purchasing-power parity of 14.57 Chinese yuan to the dollar, compared with the current 8.31 yuan.

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With current interest rates on savings accounts, CDs, and money market accounts languishing near zero, expect purchasing-power losses to continue for depositors.

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Tenaga is now squeezed between costly power-purchasing contracts foisted on it by the previous government and low tariffs insisted on by the current one.

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