I'm against using Petrobras to combat inflation.

We aim to encourage investments that ease our supply-side bottlenecks, such as rural roads, cold-storage, and grain-warehouses, which will also help us combat inflation.

— Piyush Goyal

No one thinks of controlling inflation of a continental-sized country by holding back municipal tariffs. Macroeconomic stability cannot be achieved through microeconomic intervention.

— Fernando Haddad

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

— Paul Krugman

Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.

— Dominic Raab

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

— John Maynard Keynes

By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures…

— Paul A. Volcker

It's good news that he is proposing to restore budget cuts that he made, but the reality is that he is still proposing a…

— James Rosapepe

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

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need…

— Trevor Nunn

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

— Karl Otto Pohl

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

— Ayn Rand

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation…

— Martin Feldstein

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.

— Paul Krugman

Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.

— Bill Gross

Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen…

— Peter Schiff