Inflation Quotes
Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing.
Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth.
When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.
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.
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.
In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.
When growth is slower than expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher than expected, bonds go down. When inflation's lower than expected, bonds go up.
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
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.
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.
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.
It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover.
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
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.
There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.
We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.
Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.
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.
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.
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.
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.
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.
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.
During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.
If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.
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.
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.
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.
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.
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.
If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question.
