The Great British Basket
Fiat money is money a government can print more of. The more it prints, the less each unit buys. Slide through the years and see how much more fiat money the same everyday things cost than they did in 2015.
Buying power left
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2015 = 100. Each figure is the January price for that year, from official UK data. "Buying power left" is the average for the pint, the loaf and the milk.
Sources, latest month in brackets: ONS CZMS (2025-01) ONS CZOH (2025-01) ONS CZNT (2025-01) HM Land Registry UK HPI. The ONS stopped publishing these average prices after January 2025, so 2025 is the latest year. We left out items we could not verify from an official source.
Why Bitcoin is different. Fiat money has no limit, so its buying power drifts down. Bitcoin has a fixed supply of 21 million, set in advance. Read How many Bitcoin are there? and try The Melt.
Not financial advice. Past results do not predict the future.