This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it. — Jim Nussle Copy Share Image
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history. — Hank Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“A dollar for your thoughts. Inflation life was too short to spend time spinning your wheels somewhere you didn't want to be.” — Nina Pierce Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
The Biden Administration is already punishing hardworking Americans with high energy costs, high inflation, skyrocketing taxes, and a recklessly unbalanced budget. — George Santos Copy Share Image
It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Mr. Greenspan did a very good job in the early 1990's. But recently he's fallen prey to this crazy theory that prosperity… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average… — Franklin Raines Copy Share Image
It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The time will come, and probably during 2009, that the only way the U.S. will be able to fund its deficits is… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
People will make worse financial decisions for them if they're choosing from a lot of options than if they're choosing from a… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve Act as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency. I… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are… — Robert S. Strauss Copy Share Image
The President's policy proposal, known as 'chained CPI,' would re-calculate the cost of living for Social Security beneficiaries. That new number won't… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of people missing in Iraq. Just the other day I heard of somebody asking $250,000 ransom for an… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
Back in 1960, the paper dollar and the silver dollar both were the same value. They circulated next to each other. Today?… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has consistently opposed Obamacare (as costing more), stimulus spending (as increasing inflation), etc., none of which has happened in… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
“Of course, the problems of external default, domestic default, and inflation are all integrally related. A government that chooses to default on… — Carmen M. Reinhart Copy Share Image
“At the end of inflation, just as after the hot Big Bang, the universe is hot. It is, we might say, self-created… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Here we shall have to say simply that all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand there's… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
With the sugar market hysteria, the people are obviously worried and expect higher inflation. When this hysteria subsides, which we're probably observing,… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe,… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s -… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
The unique aspect of today's monetary inflation is that it is not limited to one country, but a host of countries are… — Peter DeGraaf Copy Share Image
![“I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and will use money to get votes. If you look at inflation under the Roman Empire, with absolute rulers, they had much greater inflation, so we don't set the…” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d6/charlie-munger-458_absolutes_i-think-democracies-are-prone-to-inflati_1006251.jpg)
