Inflation Quotes · Page 6

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

— Janet Yellen

We aim to encourage investments that ease our supply-side bottlenecks, such as rural roads, cold-storage, and grain-warehouses, which will also help us…

— Piyush Goyal

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Because food and energy prices are volatile, it is often helpful to look at inflation excluding those two categories - known as…

— Janet Yellen

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

— Thomas Jefferson

Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

— Spiro T. Agnew

Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary” for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it…

— Ron Paul

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to…

— Richard M. Nixon

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

— William Greider

What Medicaid basically does is allows them to choose the two base years that they would calculate current their reimbursement levels on.…

— John Thune

Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.

— Kenneth Rogoff

The Government does not have direct control over rising energy and fuel costs or on global inflation or transport costs. But it…

— Touker Suleyman

In the United States, after World War II, it took about two decades for the message to slowly seep in that inflation…

— Murray Rothbard

In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the…

— Fred Hoyle

Very few countries grow at high rate if inflation is high and volatile. I think, in a way, we are doing our…

— Urjit Patel

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

— Henry Hazlitt

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

In reality, while currency movements can have a significant impact on inflation in other countries, dollar movements have rarely had a meaningful…

— Gita Gopinath

If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one

— George Gobel

For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix…

— Suze Orman

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

We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.

— Ronald Reagan

The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.

— Alan Greenspan

Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake…

— Leonard Read

I oppose indexing gas tax hikes to inflation.

— Charlie Baker