Inflation makes people burn extra shoe leather just walking to the bank more often

When cash loses value fast, holding less of it and making more trips to the bank becomes rational — a real resource cost from nothing but wasted trips and time. Economists call this the shoe-leather cost of inflation, a small but genuine drag that grows as prices rise faster.

— Milton Friedman, The Optimum Quantity of Money — 1969

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