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I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors… — Leonard Woodcock
How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart? — W.C. Fields
Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day. — Kin Hubbard
Inflation is the senility of democracies. — Sylvia Townsend Warner
What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor… — Scott Anderson
Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly. — Bill Gross
We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation. — Mary Johnson
We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage. — John W. Snow
With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ...… — Will Rogers
More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or from themselves. Increased… — Henry Hazlitt
There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second… — Michael Maloney
A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those… — James Rickards
If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'. — George Bernard Shaw
Inflation is taxation without legislation. — Milton Friedman
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. — Milton Friedman
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. — Alan Greenspan
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline. — Ray Dalio
There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth. — Ray Dalio
Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which… — Evan Davis
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
Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy. — Martin Feldstein
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent… — Ernest Hemingway
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to… — Barbara Jordan
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that… — Jack Kemp

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