Inflation Quotes

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

— Robert Orben

I am not against a little inflation.

— Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell

“Inflation is taxation without representation.”

— Milton Friedman

Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.

— Ludwig von Mises

Production is the only answer to inflation.

— Chester Bowles

Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

The lesson is clear. Inflation devalues us all.

— Margaret Thatcher

We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing.

— Josh S Weston

Third World War will be the mainstay of petrol and inflation

— Mak_786

Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.

— Murray Rothbard

The best measure of inflation is what is happening with commodity prices.

— Stephen Moore

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

— Martin Feldstein

There's one thing that the Fed has been really good at cracking down on, and that's inflation.

— Paul Krugman

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

— Milton Friedman

The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity.

— Rick Santelli

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more…

— Milton Friedman

If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth…

— Norman Lamont

If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

— Walter E. Williams

This IRA, this Inflation Reduction Act, which is Orwellian named, is a doomsday machine for the federal budget.

— Scott Bessent

Inflation, interest rates and immigration - the three I's - have created a toxic economic mix for the bottom 50% of American…

— Scott Bessent

It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising…

— Alex Berenson

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

— Gita Gopinath

Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about…

— Janet Yellen

According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large…

— Brian Greene

The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions…

— David Malpass

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

The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support…

— Ben Bernanke

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

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

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been…

— Cliff Stearns

Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the volatility of inflation and employment. As a result, I…

— Janet Yellen

For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although…

— Linda McQuaig

I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will…

— John F. Kerry

We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are…

— Ron Paul

“The analysis of the /General Theory /shows that inflation is a real, not a monetary, phenomenon. It operates in two stages (once…

— Joan Robinson

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . .…

— John Maynard Keynes

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

“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which…

— William F. Buckley Jr

Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower