0 a small railroad, esp. in an amusement park, with open cars that travel quickly along a steep, curved track that goes up and down over and over --
an emotional roller coaster
1 a situation in which prices, rates, etc. keep going up and down by large amounts very quickly: --
Nevertheless, the business community—the lifeblood of our economy—has been beset by a roller coaster ride of interest rates, which has been deeply damaging over the past 20 years.
We are on some kind of roller coaster, in that no matter what we try to do, it seems to get more expensive by the year.
It looks like a roller coaster.
That is the roller coaster approach to public expenditure.
Since then, as we know, the euro's exchange rate has followed a roller coaster course.
The recent reverberations from the roller coaster ride of the stock markets in the region is a small but timely reminder.
In essence, we are on a roller coaster.
Before we knew it, we were all on a roller coaster but, ironically, their own industries were damaged even more than ours.
