Inflation Quotes
If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.
Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.
We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.
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 .
If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.
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.
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.
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.
Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.
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.
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.
What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.
Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment.
Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.
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.
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.
We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.
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.
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.
The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.
It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.
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.
Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.
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.
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
Although low inflation is generally good, inflation that is too low can pose risks to the economy - especially when the economy is struggling.
Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.
The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.
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.
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.
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%.
