Because of rampant inflation, living standards have been dropping for the great majority of the population. The people are poorer because standards… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Chapter 2: How could an infinite space get created in a finite time? It sounds impossible. But as I mentioned, inflation is… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
I've learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take… — Bill Belichick Copy Share Image
Most families in Florida who are already struggling to keep up with inflation can't afford to have their savings accounts wiped out… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
In most Western economies, the general relationship is not in fact between the rate of inflation and the level of unemployment, but… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a… — Paul McCulley Copy Share Image
If you're a poor worker - this is for new workers coming into the workplace - your benefits will increase at the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
If you're afraid of inflation, I think - and if you can bring yourself to have a long horizon - and when… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share… — Ian Macfarlane Copy Share Image
A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a… — Catherine Austin Fitts Copy Share Image
American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when dealing with the world economic crisis. They… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s -… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
The unique aspect of today's monetary inflation is that it is not limited to one country, but a host of countries are… — Peter DeGraaf Copy Share Image
If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe,… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output,… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
With the sugar market hysteria, the people are obviously worried and expect higher inflation. When this hysteria subsides, which we're probably observing,… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand there's… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Very deliberately, the central bankers have punished savers, pushing interest rates so low that any truly safe investment - and older people… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Of course, the problems of external default, domestic default, and inflation are all integrally related. A government that chooses to default on… — Carmen M. Reinhart Copy Share Image
“At the end of inflation, just as after the hot Big Bang, the universe is hot. It is, we might say, self-created… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Here we shall have to say simply that all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image