If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that…

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

— William McChesney Martin

I always think of the economy as going down a pretty broad road that has mud on either side - for inflation and deflation.…

— John Manley

The Fed is pushing a variety of workarounds that would inject trillions in new money into the economy while bypassing the banking system altogether.…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we…

— Gavyn Davies

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too…

— Robert Kiyosaki

See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

— Jean Cocteau

With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever…

— Catherine Austin Fitts

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 us under…

— Bill Belichick

Near-zero policy rates that may be considerably expansionary in an economy with high inflation could be contractionary when inflation is too close to zero,…

— Athanasios Orphanides

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…

— Gary Shilling

“At the end of 2012, the yield on nominal bonds was about 2 percent. The only way that bonds could generate a 7.8 percent…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

The United States and Europe are in a state of debt deflation, where people and businesses have to pay banks instead of spending their…

— Michael Hudson

As a whole, [changing] is deflation force that is being underestimated. Whether each person thinks of it in the context of the word deflation…

— Ken Moelis

Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening…

— Michael Hudson