If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in…

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain…

— Martin Feldstein

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth…

— Norman Lamont

I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.

— Raghuram Rajan

The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.

— Raghuram Rajan

Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.

— Esther McVey

If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either…

— Ben Bernanke

Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have…

— Paul Krugman

Higher unemployment generally bodes well for franchising. People are looking for a new opportunity, and people who have jobs are a little less confident…

— Fred DeLuca

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 try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool…

— Henry Hazlitt

If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and…

— Milton Friedman

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a…

— William Vickrey

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale…

— Barbara Jordan

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

— Milton Friedman

Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

— Margaret Thatcher