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• n  a general and progressive increase in prices
  in inflation everything gets more valuable except money
• n  (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
• n  lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
• n  the act of filling something with air

• If the chief political argument of the year concerns defense and the budget, the chief economic argument is about inflation.
• How to Keep It from Galloping THERE are some who say that we cannot enjoy the blessings of progress without incurring in some degree the ravages of inflation.
• If the chief political argument of the year concerns defense and the budget, the chief economic argument is about inflation.

• rising prices
• ostentation
• ostentatiousness
• pomposity
• pompousness
• pretentiousness
• puffiness
• splashiness

• deflation

News & Articles

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• TIPS ETFs Dunked Before Fed Decision, Inflation Data
  ETFs following Treasury Inflation Protected Securities have hit a rough patch lately. Blame subdued inflation expectations and rising real yields. For example, the Consumer Price Index fell 0.4% in April ...
  June 17, 2013 - ETF Trends via Yahoo! Finance
• Inflation Begins to Sap Support From Brazil's President
  Inflation Begins to Sap Support From Brazil's President
  June 14, 2013 - Nasdaq
• India Inflation Slows to 43-Month Low; Rupee Dims Rate-Cut Scope
  Indian inflation slowed to a 43- month low in May, a moderation that may fail to spur another interest-rate cut by the central bank as a plunge in the rupee threatens to fan price pressures.
  June 14, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in Los Angeles Times
  The Fed "will strongly resist an erosion of longer-term inflation expectations, as an unanchoring of those expectations would be destabilizing for growth as well as for inflation," Bernanke said.