If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively, — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
You can't rule out deflation just because you've never seen it in your lifetime. — Greg Mankiw Copy Share Image
Every serious deflation I've looked at is preceded by an asset bubble, and then it bursts. — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing. — William McChesney Martin Copy Share Image
Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are generally not a problem for the economy as… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades. — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat,… — Gavyn Davies Copy Share Image
In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which… — Irving Fisher 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
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
Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks… — Anonymous 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
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… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“Falling consumer prices is what enriches people (deflation of asset prices can ruin them, but that is because they are using asset… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The Fed is pushing a variety of workarounds that would inject trillions in new money into the economy while bypassing the banking… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“It is one thing when prices drift downward over time due to innovation, scalability or other efficiencies. This might be considered “good”… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it. — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.' — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
More and more money is being extracted from of the production and consumption economy to pay the FIRE sector. That's what causes… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
“Mario Draghi became the first major central banker to cut a key interest rate below zero as he unveiled a series of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
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