But a bubble that inflated revenues, share prices, fees, profits and employment was bound to inflate pay too.
Early users were encouraged to inflate an airbed and rent it out to a stranded traveller.
But it's a zero-sum game: without increasing supply, Help to Buy only helps inflate the market to the detriment of every other buyer.
Some opportunists will always try to inflate their existing salaries by proclaiming a lifelong ambition to play for Oyonnax but there are plenty who have found rugby life in France less than fulfilling.
Although the government has no magic solution to ensure the property bubble will not inflate once more, Shapps believes it can help to suppress it.
It's the Greeks and the Irish, who can't inflate their way out of the crisis via Anglo-Saxon "quantitative easing" and who are facing years of austerity to compensate for the profligate ways of the past.
These policies do nothing to help private renters with no prospect of buying, but also inflate house prices further out of the reach of first-time buyers.
A gap between claim and reality is hardly unknown in the software industry, but L&H had acquired a reputation for stretching it farther than most.Software firms also tend to inflate differences between claims and reality on financial performance.
He reckons Enron may have used limited partnerships and other financial vehicles to inflate profits.
The more you inflate a balloon, to give a two-dimensional example, the less pronouncedly curved its surface gets.
And Britain's Labour Party promises that if it wins the general election in May, it will bring down the maximum fee from £9,000 to £6,000 a year.He who pays the piperAdvocates of private funding say that it makes students more demanding and universities more responsive (though they often forget to add that it may also increase the pressure to inflate grades).
