Money is short, as inflation eats away at the settlers' savings, and building materials are expensive and hard to get.

Because inflation eats away at the value of money year after year, a dollar is worth more today than it will be 20 years from now.

The biggest drawback is the possibility that falling inflation will eat into the inflation-linked earnings rate.

A major one is whether inflation will eat away at interest payments.

Chi explained that corruption and inflation had eaten away at the country.

Before 2000, if the money was not invested with a high enough return, the high Romanian inflation soon ate the savings away.

But with each year of little or no growth, inflation eats away at the endowment's value.

As things stand, investors are taxed on the full amount of their gains, although inflation has eaten away at the value of the investment.

By this time post-war inflation had eaten away much of its value, leaving many war widows in financial hardship.

The wages of typical workers are treading water, growing roughly at the same rate that inflation eats into their buying power.