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Inflation means an increase in general price levels for goods and services. There's inflation when prices go up across the board, not just for a few items. This means that we can buy less today than we could in the past for the same euro. In other words, inflation reduces the value of money over time. The inflation rate is the percentage change in the prices of goods and services over a given period of time.