In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I'm happy to make returns of 4% to 6% a year on my real estate portfolio. If inflation comes along I'll be… — Porter Stansberry Copy Share Image
We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Under Reagan's policies, inflation and nominal GNP growth shriveled much faster than predicted, throwing off government revenue estimates and resulting in budget… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Entitlements seem to grow with prosperity; not only because they are indexed to inflation or GDP, but also because a prosperous country… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Food and energy account for a significant portion of household budgets, so the Federal Reserve's inflation objective is defined in terms of… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I will say this: the central banks can actually support growth beyond a point. When there is no inflation, they can cut… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
“My financial views are of the most decided character, but they are not likely, perhaps, to increase my popularity with the advocates… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Here at home, ... while the most likely scenario remains solid growth and low inflation -- subject to the usual ups and… — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
The cable industry has risen to new heights in their apparent willingness and ability to gouge the American consumer. Cable rates [have]… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
It is not wise for us to permit a few people on the Federal Reserve Board to have life and death power… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Here's why I think the public service jobs are almost unavoidable: When we have downturns in the economy - and we will,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Monetary policy should remain data dependent, be well communicated, and ensure that inflation expectations remain anchored. — Gita Gopinath Copy Share Image
People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism,… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
During the slow recovery after the Great Recession, inflation was very low, and it took us a while to get it back… — Charles L. Evans Copy Share Image
We have been mandated by the government, backed by legislation, that we have to have an inflation target of about 4%. — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
“Word inflation . . . Bigger and better. Good greater greatest totally great. Hyperbolic and hyperbolicker. Like grade-inflation.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Moderation of oil prices would be very, very welcome. But overall I think we are in a position of stable growth, sustainable… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Stocks actually can be a very good hedge against inflation, and short of hyperinflation, stocks will have the ability to increase their… — Porter Stansberry Copy Share Image
The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
As 'Austrian' business cycle theory has pointed out, any bank credit inflation sets up conditions for boom-and-bust; there is no need for… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
:) Inflation were the first to say why not come to my house guests! Now let's say, why guests cometo my house!… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
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