"We've probably spent more money in the last two years than we have in the last 20."
"It doesn't impact them, it doesn't impact us. It's not right."
"They're buying more stuff, they're buying more holidays, they're buying more T-shirts or whatever."
"But what it does mean is, obviously, younger indebted people are doing more of the heavy lifting than older people with net savings."
"But it's monetary policy — interest rates — that will have the widest effect. And one of the things that we can rely on, unfortunately, is it is not equitable."
"Most certainly it does seem the working-age population is kind of bearing the brunt of the inflation crisis, relative to those who don't have a mortgage, who aren't employed and are in the consumption phase of life."
"I'm sick of baby boomers saying we had it tough, compared to now," he says. "We didn't have it tough, this is tough!"
"Otherwise I think that our generation — my generation — has inadvertently stolen our children's future."