"$100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000 — by which time it will be worth nothing."
—Lazarus Long, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, as quoted in Time Enough for Love
Elbonian carrying a Huge Bag of money: Is this enough for a small?
Bartender: A minute ago, yes, but now it costs a hundred times more.
Elbonian: [Smothers bartender to death with said bag of money] Problem solved.
— Dilbert
Captain America: Two hundred and fifty bucks for a pair of slacks? I didn't make that much in six months when I first joined the army.
"Whatever the other failures of the U.S. government were, it had managed to print an excess of dollars which, combined with the collapse of trade and communication, had severely eroded the currency's value."
— James Howard Kunstler, World Made by Hand, chapter 30, p. 146
