When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals. — James Laver Copy Share Image
Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To… — Nicholas Deak Copy Share Image
Low and stable inflation in many countries is an important accomplishment that will continue to bring significant benefits. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Until the Fed dumps inflation targeting and the U.S. abandons its weak-dollar policy, inflation will rule the day. — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
Central bankers always try to avoid their last big mistake. So every time there's the threat of a contraction in the economy,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
During the Greenspan-Bernanke era, the Fed has embraced the view that stability in the economy and stability in prices are mutually consistent.… — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Back in the '60s, for example, just as inflation was beginning to be a big problem, Presidents J.F.Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson would… — Greg Ip Copy Share Image
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour.… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
Life is full of uncertainties. Future investment earnings and interest and inflation rates are not known to anybody. However, I can guarantee… — Noel Whittaker Copy Share Image
Historically, gold has always been a safe haven against inflation and a safe haven in times of political instability. — John Paulson Copy Share Image
Although low inflation is generally good, inflation that is too low can pose risks to the economy - especially when the economy… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
No one thinks of controlling inflation of a continental-sized country by holding back municipal tariffs. Macroeconomic stability cannot be achieved through microeconomic… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
If the world's using bitcoin, governments won't be able to fund wars through inflation like they do today. — Roger Ver Copy Share Image
There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is… — Michael Maloney Copy Share Image
If you put tariffs in place, it creates inflation. If you put inflation in place, you have to raise interest rates. You… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Wage workers are unconsciously trading their limited lifetime for abundant pieces of paper that are designed to steal their lifetime” — Daniella Liberati 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
Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The Government does not have direct control over rising energy and fuel costs or on global inflation or transport costs. But it… — Touker Suleyman Copy Share Image
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Below-target inflation increases the real value of debts owed by households and businesses and reduces the ability of central banks to respond… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
The benefits of freer trade, such as job creation, lower inflation, and greater consumer choice, are often invisible or only partly visible. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they’re paying more in… — Simon Black Copy Share Image
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The only way to ensure that inflation expectations remain safely anchored near the FOMC's target is to keep inflation close to that… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
