Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it… — Barry Ritholtz 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
I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Very deliberately, the central bankers have punished savers, pushing interest rates so low that any truly safe investment - and older people… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share… — Ian Macfarlane Copy Share Image
That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
If you're afraid of inflation, I think - and if you can bring yourself to have a long horizon - and when… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation… — Charley Reese 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
American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when dealing with the world economic crisis. They… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from… — John Wayne 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
“Chapter 2: How could an infinite space get created in a finite time? It sounds impossible. But as I mentioned, inflation is… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a… — Paul McCulley Copy Share Image
If you're a poor worker - this is for new workers coming into the workplace - your benefits will increase at the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In most Western economies, the general relationship is not in fact between the rate of inflation and the level of unemployment, but… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Most families in Florida who are already struggling to keep up with inflation can't afford to have their savings accounts wiped out… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The Biden administration's blowout spending and regulatory restraints on the supply side of the economy unleashed insidiously persistent inflation that has eroded… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
The two important variables for the policy formulation are projected inflation and the output gap. There is no clear hidebound mathematics that… — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
A cheaper British currency could be a crisis if its swift move provoked a broader financial crisis, which it has not, or… — Kelly Evans Copy Share Image
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Because of rampant inflation, living standards have been dropping for the great majority of the population. The people are poorer because standards… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The single biggest issue that I'm very sensitive to is inflation. I'm very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates… — Sam Zell Copy Share Image
I see almost no change in the price of the composite product that flows through Costco I don't feel sorry for the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
While inflation adjusted average hourly earnings rose 2.4% during Trump's first three years in office, they have declined 2.2% under Joe Biden.… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
The road to economic well-being is to reward productive economic activity and to provide a moderate and predictable growth of money to… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business.They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those with… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
Yes, 4% is the government-mandated target to the MPC. The plus/minus 2 percentage-point upper and lower bands are the tolerance levels specified… — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image