Where is all the world's money disappearing to? The super-rich, of course. Remember that the top 1% of the world's richest individuals & families, own 99% of the world's money. This is *not* an exaggeration (if anything it's an understatement). Humanity's system of money on Earth is highly unethical, where the poor (including the middle-class) keeps getting poorer (despite working harder and harder), while the rich (especially the super-rich) keeps getting richer and richer (with totally no effort on their part, eg. landlords and REITS just keep collecting ever-increasing rentals). So now you know why inflation and the costs of living keeps going up and up, because all the money is being sucked-up by the super-rich. Say you have 100 million dollars (which is less than 1% of the wealth of any one individual amongst the richest people in Singapore, China, India, USA and everywhere on Earth), and you keep this 100 million dollars in banks. The interest alone (excluding principal sum) could easily be more than a million dollars a month. Doing no work at all, while all the cleaners, construction and service workers slave under inhumane working conditions endlessly but never have any hope of clearing their mountain of ever-increasing debts from multiple bank loans with high interest rates. Banks and landlords take from the poor to give to the rich. Welcome to physical incarnation. Welcome to humanity. Welcome to Earth.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/unstuck-how-can-the-worlds-vanishing-middle-class-escape-an-economictrap/article28816064/Answer to the article's rhetoric title question : "They can't."