Inflation Quotes

We could, of course, always make the payments, simply by printing more money - we simply promise to pay people by giving them dollar bills - but that could set off inflation.

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.

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.

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

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.

Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.

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

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

An overheating economy, characterized by accelerating inflation and rising interest rates, is another precondition for recession. This doesn't describe today's economy.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.

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

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.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel.

In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.

I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin', " she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.