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Does The Big Print hold up?
The Big Print (Lepard) is one of the 102 money books on The Money Shelf. It was on the Amazon bestseller lists for personal finance or investing in Australia on 2 October 2026. The shelf links it to 2 of the 22 claims that the book tests against official records from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Each verdict below comes from that test.
Claim 14 · The book makes this claimBitcoin: a hedge against inflation
Not establishedIn the one period when inflation surged, Bitcoin lost 31 per cent in dollars to 30 June 2022 while prices rose 13.8 per cent, and its large later gain and its fall since the October 2025 high are not explained by inflation (inference by this audit).
Read the full test →Claim 22 · The book makes this claimInflation and cash: currencies are losing value, so cash savings are being destroyed
Weak diagnosisThe arithmetic is true for notes kept in a drawer, because £1 in 2025 buys what 0.58 new pence bought in 1900, and Australian prices in 2025 were 97 times their 1901 level, so cash held since 1901 buys 1.03 per cent of what it bought then.
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