Inflation Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

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

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

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

Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.

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

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

(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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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!

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.

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

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

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

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.

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

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

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

Inflation is a form of tax, a tax that we all collectively must pay.

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

Inflation is repudiation.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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