Will eggs be more expensive than grapes for New Year's Eve?

I hope you have had a good summer. An inflation rate of 4.3% in August is the prelude to an end of the year that will make us all poorer. To put it simply, especially for those of you who do not like risk, it would be like a stock falling by 4.3%. Doing nothing with our money makes us lose purchasing power. The main cause? The high price of fuel. And do you know who wins no matter what happens? A VAT and personal income tax collection (if wages rise) that is at historical highs. The more expensive the supermarket is, the more VAT we pay.

To try to counteract the effect of inflation, we must invest our money, with more or less risk. Nowadays, however, neither deposits nor remunerated accounts (zero risk) give us more than 2.5%. To try to overcome an inflation rate of 4.3%, one would have to look for alternatives with a potentially higher return, such as fixed income or the stock market, assuming more risk. Some of you might think: what if it goes down and I lose more? Of course, and you are right, this is the risk we are assuming.

Inflation also worsens inequality. What happens to families who cannot increase risk because they do not have savings to invest? Inflation affects the shopping we do, the family budget, the trips we can no longer take. And this is probably the most unfair face of inflation: those who have the least margin are those who have the fewest tools to defend themselves against it.

Looking towards the end of the year, the only solution is for fuel prices to have a significant drop. The government can do it through the tax effect; it is as simple as reducing the tax on it. We are not talking about a tax in the style of if you use the highway, you pay for it; here we are talking about the fact that the entire economy is suffering from it. You just need to go to the supermarket. Will eggs be more expensive than grapes for New Year's Eve?