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Today  ·  27 October 2026

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam EwingPrinciples of Finance, OpenStax, 2023
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Today’s quote is filed under #inflation. That topic leads to Ernest Hemingway, who is also quoted on writing – and writing leads to Benjamin Franklin. Every quote here connects to the next by author or topic.

  1. Sam Ewing  ·  today“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.”
  2. #inflation
  3. Ernest Hemingway“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
  4. #writing
  5. Benjamin Franklin“Either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
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