Inflation is one of the major risks that retirees face when living off their nest eggs. The general increase of prices over time would leave retirees on fixed incomes scrambling to make ends meet in the decades after leaving the workforce. Dividend growth stocks are one of the few asset classes available to investors to provide a stream of income that generally grows over time. For example, between 1920 and 2005 the dividends paid by the companies included in the Dow Jones Industrials Index (DIA) increased by 5.60 percent per year, which was more than the 3 percent annual inflation rate during the period. [More...]