Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For risk management reasons, we need to make sure we hit our inflation objective at the same time we're at full employment. — Charles L. Evans Copy Share Image
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Zimbabwe is a lost country. There is no money in Zimbabwe, everything stands still. The economy of the country is in shambles,… — Thomas Mapfumo Copy Share Image
It's hard to put a figure on what level of inflation is appropriate. But I strongly feel that we would not be… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Most people will see declining returns [due to inflation]. One of the great defenses if you're worried about inflation is not to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is,… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as agflation. Rising commodity prices, or increases in any prices, do not cause inflation. Inflation is what… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I find it funny that people who didn't think there was any inflation in the pipeline are now talking about stagflation. This… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“For just over my price range, I can get something way under my quality expectation level. Thanks, inflation!” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money. — Russ Roberts Copy Share Image
Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase. — Ella T. Grasso 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
The best way that a central bank can support growth on a durable basis is to ensure inflation is low, stable -… — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
If people expect high inflation and raise wages to reflect the high inflation, then it becomes self-fulfilling. — Gita Gopinath 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
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can… — Rutherford B. Hayes 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
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
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
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
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
You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
"Average" isn't so hot at the race track given those steep track takes. "Average" is pretty decent for stocks, something like 6… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing,… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
Starting in the wake of the 2008 GFC (Global Financial Crisis), market observers have warned of a crash in the bond market.… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
Inflation is really like drugging the baby universe with speed. The supercool union of the hitherto unfriendly gods was blessed by amphetamine,… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“[Hyperinflation is] not going to happen in this country, will never happen... [The Fed putting so much money into the system is]… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
President Trump's first-term tariffs did not raise the prices of the affected goods, despite predictions back then that the tariffs would prove… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
![“Most people will see declining returns [due to inflation]. One of the great defenses if you're worried about inflation is not to have a lot of silly needs in your life - you don't need a lot of material goods.” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1b/charlie-munger-458_customer_most-people-will-see-declining-returns-d_2532092.jpg)
![“[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the…” quote by Paul Keating](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/295/paul-keating-8731_australian_australian-reserve-bank-governor-macfarl_2047355.png)
![“[Hyperinflation is] not going to happen in this country, will never happen... [The Fed putting so much money into the system is] not going to create the risk of hyperinflation in the future. We have a strong independent Federal Reserve with a very strong mandate from the Congress, and they will do…” quote by Timothy Geithner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/229/timothy-geithner-19996_congress_hyperinflation-is-not-going-to-happen-in_1962531.jpg)
