A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is…

Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the…

— Anonymous

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

— Alan Cohen

When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the 99% in…

— Michael Hudson

Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and…

— Ben Bernanke

The current U.S. and Eurozone depression isn't because of China. It's because of domestic debt deflation. Commodity prices and consumer spending are falling, mainly…

— Michael Hudson

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

To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

— Carlos Ghosn

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

“It is one thing when prices drift downward over time due to innovation, scalability or other efficiencies. This might be considered “good” deflation and…

— James Rickards

“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

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

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