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 problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost… — Barack Obama 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
“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
Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom. — Walter E. Williams 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
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
Once an economy reaches a certain level of acceleration... the Fed is no longer with you... The Fed, instead of trying to… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Militarism is the most energy-intensive, entropic activity of humans, since it converts stored energy and materials directly into waste and destruction without… — Hazel Henderson 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
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 the world's using bitcoin, governments won't be able to fund wars through inflation like they do today. — Roger Ver 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
Historically, gold has always been a safe haven against inflation and a safe haven in times of political instability. — John Paulson 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
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
Low and stable inflation in many countries is an important accomplishment that will continue to bring significant benefits. — Ben Bernanke 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
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
When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals. — James Laver Copy Share Image
If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. — Jim Thompson 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
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
The single best time to invest is at a young age because the dollar in the market today will likely be worth… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
We could, of course, always make the payments, simply by printing more money - we simply promise to pay people by giving… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
When we say "people worry" about inflation, it's mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the '50s,… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think… — Charles L. Evans Copy Share Image
Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
