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The value of the pound has changed a lot over the past three years - making us all a little poorer.
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This article looks at how the effect of the Brexit referendum and subsequent nonsense has affected the UK economy - in essence making all of us just that little bit poorer.
The 15% fall in the value of the pound since December 2015 has increased the cost of foreign holidays and imports, to the extent that prices are now 2% higher than they would have been without the effect of the depreciating currency.
However, there's a call for caution - in that the declining value of the currency hasn't had a marked effect on imports, exports or the current account balance, and this says something about the price elasticity of demand for exports and imports - and might get you thinking about the Marshall-Lerner condition.
Better still, the article might guide you to Paul Johnson's excellent "Analysis2 programme which looks at precisely this issue.