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
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
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
“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
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
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
If inflation is brought down, interest rates will fall. Once rates fall, we have the opportunity to maybe achieve the goal of… — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I can tell you what happens to countries that go bankrupt. I've been to Argentina. I'm familiar with the history of Mexico… — Porter Stansberry Copy Share Image
The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan's re-election, was directly attributable to Jimmy Carter's… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I would be uncomfortable raising the federal funds rate if readings on wage growth, core consumer prices, and other indicators of underlying… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I always think of the economy as going down a pretty broad road that has mud on either side - for inflation… — John Manley Copy Share Image
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
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth. — James Douglas Copy Share Image
Monetary policy should be decided by the comprehensive assessment of various factors, not only the exchange rate but also the economy, inflation… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In this age of inflation has become too expensive to die / Before, die and be expensive, I think / still cheap… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have never lost money in stocks over any 20-year period, but you have wiped out half your portfolio in bonds (after… — Jeremy Siegel Copy Share Image
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4% — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
In retrospect, 'Bidenomics' was a sad, simple and cynical economic plan: spend, spend, spend while opening up the U.S. southern border to… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
The best time to make deficit reduction a priority is when the inflation rate and the bond market give you some indication… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“A tax dollar paid today is far more expensive than one paid in future dollars. With inflation, money becomes less valuable over… — Coreen T. Sol Copy Share Image
Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
If you are looking for a hedge for potential inflation for the future and have a longer term view, then gold is… — John Paulson Copy Share Image
We've actually seen some executives boast on earnings calls about how inflation is great for their bottom line. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I hope that more Canadians will become interested in in how the inflation rate target affects our purchasing power, our standard of… — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
“In reality high profits tend much more to raise the price of (a piece of) work than high wages. (quoting Adam Smith… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage. — John W. Snow 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 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
