If you had a million pounds in foreign currency, and that currency devalues by 20%, where has your money gone?
If you had a thousand pounds invested in National Grid shares a year ago, where would 17.22% of your wealth have gone?
If you owned an apartment in a luxury block near London's money markets, and the traders all moved to Frankfurt, where would half the value of your flat have gone?
If Krugerrands were retailing at £1147 a year ago, and now it's £1059, where did the difference go?
I have a warehouse full of pumpkins. Last week the price was climbing and I held on hoping for more gains. Today they're worthless. Where has my investment gone?
Why can't I sell the bonds issued by the Imperial Russian Railway Company of Vladivostok that my great-grand-dad left me?
In 1958, £450 was enough to buy a car. You put the money under the floorboards. It won't buy a car today. Where did its value go?