Quotes about Inflation

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. Votes: 8

Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved. Votes: 7

Inflation is repudiation. Votes: 6

Inflation is taxation without legislation. Votes: 6

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Votes: 6

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Votes: 6

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education. Votes: 6

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. Votes: 6

Inflation is the senility of democracies. Votes: 5

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. Votes: 5

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings. Votes: 4

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation Votes: 4

Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties. Votes: 4

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase. Votes: 4

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. Votes: 4

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. Votes: 4

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year. Votes: 4

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. Votes: 4

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output. Votes: 4

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy. Votes: 4

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. Votes: 4

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it. Votes: 4

The lesson is clear. Inflation devalues us all. Votes: 3

Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff. Votes: 3

Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed. Votes: 3

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others. Votes: 3

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. Votes: 3

Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. Votes: 3

The Debasement of World Currency:It Is Inflation, But Not As We Know It Votes: 3

Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market. Votes: 3

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest. Votes: 3

Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank. Votes: 3

Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again. Votes: 3

Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now. Votes: 3

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity. Votes: 3

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. Votes: 3

Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth. Votes: 3

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving. Votes: 3

Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings. Votes: 3

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. Votes: 3

Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism. Votes: 3

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation. Votes: 3

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism . Votes: 3

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before. Votes: 3

Inflation made it possible to divert the fury of the people to 'speculators' and 'profiteers'. Thus it proved itself an excellent psychological resource of the destructive and annihilist war policy. Votes: 3

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other! Votes: 3

Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie. Votes: 3

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear. Votes: 3

Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I'd love to see a little bit of that. Because I'd love to pay people more. I'd love to see rising wages for everybody. Votes: 3

One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught. Votes: 3

Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary. For this reason all those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy. Votes: 3

Inflation is essentially antidemocratic. Votes: 2

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy. Votes: 2

Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up. Votes: 2

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant. Votes: 2

Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer. Votes: 2

There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth. Votes: 2

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure. Votes: 2

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively, Votes: 2

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day. Votes: 2

Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible. Votes: 2

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart? Votes: 2

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money. Votes: 2

Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation. Votes: 2

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. Votes: 2

Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers. Votes: 2

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. Votes: 2

We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target. Votes: 2

Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money. Votes: 2

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. Votes: 2

The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems. Votes: 2

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. Votes: 2

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments. Votes: 2

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. Votes: 2

In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up. Votes: 2

Inflation ist Diebstahl am kleinen Mann. Votes: 1

During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving. Votes: 1

Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise. Votes: 1

Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation. Votes: 1

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline. Votes: 1

To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation. Votes: 1

Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates. Votes: 1

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation. Votes: 1

Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment. Votes: 1

Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years. Votes: 1

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels. Votes: 1

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe. Votes: 0

Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation. Votes: 0

Nothing so weakens a government as inflation. Votes: 0

Production is the only answer to inflation. Votes: 0

I am not against a little inflation. Votes: 0

The natural tendency of the state is inflation. Votes: 0

I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation. Votes: 0

[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation. Votes: 0

We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending. Votes: 0

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development. Votes: 0

See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation. Votes: 0

Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low. Votes: 0

Let's turn inflation over to the post office. That'll slow it down. Votes: 0

Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression. Votes: 0

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars. Votes: 0

Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities. Votes: 0

Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease. Votes: 0

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three. Votes: 0

What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening. Votes: 0

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance. Votes: 0

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value. Votes: 0

Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague. Votes: 0

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries. Votes: 0

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom. Votes: 0

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower. Votes: 0

It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had. Votes: 0

Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing. Votes: 0

You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation. Votes: 0

There's one thing that the Fed has been really good at cracking down on, and that's inflation. Votes: 0

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation. Votes: 0

If we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. Votes: 0

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level. Votes: 0

Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4% Votes: 0

The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure. Votes: 0

On the issue of inflation, I think I could solve it no matter how much money it took. Votes: 0

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals. Votes: 0

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings. Votes: 0

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent. Votes: 0

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'. Votes: 0

You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged. Votes: 0

The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created. Votes: 0

Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible. Votes: 0

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping. Votes: 0

If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma. Votes: 0

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. Votes: 0

We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation. Votes: 0

If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one Votes: 0

Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check. Votes: 0

We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage. Votes: 0

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target. Votes: 0

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles. Votes: 0

The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money. Votes: 0

Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed. Votes: 0

This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it. Votes: 0

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. Votes: 0

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up. Votes: 0

I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth. Votes: 0

People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover. Votes: 0

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition. Votes: 0

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease. Votes: 0

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation. Votes: 0

If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government. Votes: 0

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. Votes: 0

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky. Votes: 0

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it. Votes: 0

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened. Votes: 0

If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying. Votes: 0

They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression. Votes: 0

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment. Votes: 0

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation. Votes: 0

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation. Votes: 0

Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they're paying more in taxes. Votes: 0

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.... Votes: 0

There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better. Votes: 0

Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly. Votes: 0

Although low inflation is generally good, inflation that is too low can pose risks to the economy - especially when the economy is struggling. Votes: 0

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career. Votes: 0

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation. Votes: 0

Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers. Votes: 0

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of valu Votes: 0

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying. Votes: 0

Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen. Votes: 0

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation. Votes: 0

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency. Votes: 0

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information. Votes: 0

Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question. Votes: 0

Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries. Votes: 0

There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second kind. Votes: 0

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis. Votes: 0

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is. Votes: 0

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago. Votes: 0

Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock. Votes: 0

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering. Votes: 0

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism. Votes: 0

Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too. Votes: 0

We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and inflation prompted investors to flee production in favor of protection. Votes: 0

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation. Votes: 0

Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are. Votes: 0

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation. Votes: 0

Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years. Votes: 0

A crucial responsibility of any central bank is to control inflation, the average rate of increase in the prices of a broad group of goods and services. Votes: 0

The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment. Votes: 0

The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year. Votes: 0

Food and energy account for a significant portion of household budgets, so the Federal Reserve's inflation objective is defined in terms of the overall change in consumer prices. Votes: 0

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth. Votes: 0

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice. Votes: 0

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy. Votes: 0

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation. Votes: 0

Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can eat Spam. You cannot eat gold. Votes: 0

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation. Votes: 0

Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning. Votes: 0

When we say "people worry" about inflation, it's mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the '50s, '60s and '70s. Votes: 0

The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment. Votes: 0

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery. Votes: 0

The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters. Votes: 0

The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope. Votes: 0

Entitlements seem to grow with prosperity; not only because they are indexed to inflation or GDP, but also because a prosperous country tells itself it can afford more benefits. Votes: 0

I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not. Votes: 0

From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation. Votes: 0

Getting back to inflation, it is important to note that the producer price Index does not reflect wage pressures - and that is where the inflation threat really lies. Votes: 0

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed. Votes: 0

Moderation of oil prices would be very, very welcome. But overall I think we are in a position of stable growth, sustainable growth, and basically with inflation in check. Votes: 0

You have never lost money in stocks over any 20-year period, but you have wiped out half your portfolio in bonds (after inflation). So which is the riskier asset? Votes: 0

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed. Votes: 0

Zimbabwe is a lost country. There is no money in Zimbabwe, everything stands still. The economy of the country is in shambles, the inflation is the highest in this world. Votes: 0

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety. Votes: 0

Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world. Votes: 0

If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself. Votes: 0

Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans. Votes: 0

The cable industry has risen to new heights in their apparent willingness and ability to gouge the American consumer. Cable rates [have] increased an unbelievable five-and-a-half times faster than inflation. Votes: 0

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. Votes: 0

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation. Votes: 0

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost. Votes: 0

Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling. Votes: 0

After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. …By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%. Votes: 0

In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power. Votes: 0

It's good news that he is proposing to restore budget cuts that he made, but the reality is that he is still proposing a 4.5 percent increase in tuition that's above inflation. Votes: 0

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. Votes: 0

By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation. Votes: 0

If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and that you would not have lower unemployment. Votes: 0

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano. Votes: 0

When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful. Votes: 0

The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation. Votes: 0

...the United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century. Votes: 0

Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job. Votes: 0

It is not the poverty of individuals and the community, not indebtedness to foreign nations, not the unfavourableness of the conditions of production, that force up the rate of exchange, but inflation. Votes: 0

Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able. Votes: 0

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation. Votes: 0

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain. Votes: 0

After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction. Votes: 0

Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evaluate what we have done? Votes: 0

I think the minimum wage outght to keep pace with inflation. I think the minimum wage is a good thing to have in our country and I think it ought to be updated. Votes: 0

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty. Votes: 0

In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection. Votes: 0

When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do. Votes: 0

When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do. Votes: 0

A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations and creating illusory profits, inflation will destroy this function. Votes: 0

I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business. Votes: 0

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation. Votes: 0

Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new Treasurys, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer, and the hyper-inflation cat will be completely out of the bag. Votes: 0

Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands for higher wages and reiterated credit expansion; in short, protracted inflation. Votes: 0

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it. Votes: 0

Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation. Votes: 0

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today. Votes: 0

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up. Votes: 0

But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation. Votes: 0

The Central Bank should take into account other things as well: the stability of the bank system in the country, the increase or decrease of money supply in the economy, its influence on inflation. Votes: 0

The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income. Votes: 0

A devious spark lit through Al, making me smile. One way. It costs too much, he said. “There’s no inflation in the ever-after, Al.” Call it a recession then. One way. Votes: 0

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy. Votes: 0

I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money supply. And - if it insists, it can worry about inflation. Votes: 0

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. Votes: 0

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man. Votes: 0

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. Votes: 0

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history. Votes: -1

It is very important to have a correct socio-economic development forecast and plan, in which inflation being a vital investment factor should be the key indicator Votes: -1