About MoneyCurio

MoneyCurio is a collection of interactive tools that answer the money questions people actually wonder about: where does my income rank? What would that investment be worth today? What has inflation quietly done to my savings?

Every tool runs entirely in your browser on openly published data — World Bank, BLS, OECD, ECB and other public sources. There are no accounts, no paywalls and no financial advice: just fast, honest, shareable answers.

Who makes it

MoneyCurio is an independent project. It has no parent company, no investors, no bank or broker behind it and no commercial partnerships — which is why it can show a number that is inconvenient for someone selling something. Everything you read here, in all six languages, is written and edited by the people who build the tools; nothing is auto-translated or auto-generated. If you want to reach whoever is responsible for a page, that is the same address as everything else: see the contact page.

How it is paid for

The site is free, has no paywall and never asks you to register. Our intention is to cover hosting with ordinary display advertising. There are no affiliate links, no referral fees, no sponsored tools and no paid placements anywhere on MoneyCurio, and no advertiser has ever had — or will have — any say in what a tool calculates or what a post concludes. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed on this page before it happens, not after.

Honesty rules we hold ourselves to

These are the rules we actually apply when we build a tool or write a post, not decoration:

• Losses are shown, not hidden. Any tool that can show a gain also shows the drops that came with it — the worst year, the drawdown, the scenario where you would have regretted it.
• No mocking anyone's income. A result never implies that someone is poor because of their choices, and advice that only works at a particular income level is labelled as such.
• Every number is traceable. Sources are named on the methodology page and each tool shows the date its data was last refreshed.
• Missing data is admitted. When a source is unavailable we keep the last good value and say so, rather than filling the gap with an estimate that looks like a fact.
• No predictions, no advice. We show what happened and what arithmetic follows from your inputs. We never forecast a price and never tell you what to buy, sell or do with your money.

Corrections

We get things wrong sometimes: a stale figure, a source that changed its methodology, a translation that reads oddly. Corrections are genuinely welcome and we would rather hear about a mistake than keep it. Write to us via the contact page — a link to the correct source makes it much faster to verify — and we will fix it and, where the change is significant, note it on the page.