Goals Quote by Charles L. Evans

We have been mandated by the government, backed by legislation, that we have to have an inflation target of about 4%.

— Urjit Patel

Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide…

— Bill Gross

Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.

— Michael Hudson

The idea that when people see prices falling they will stop buying those cheaper goods or cheaper food does not make much sense. And…

— Paul Volcker

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly…

— Anonymous

The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.

— Raghuram Rajan

Food and energy account for a significant portion of household budgets, so the Federal Reserve's inflation objective is defined in terms of the overall…

— Janet Yellen

Inflation is not an abstract idea thrown around by finance gurus. Inflation is a very real threat to the pocketbooks of hardworking Americans throughout…

— Tommy Tuberville

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.

— Janet Yellen

Inflation, like infrastructure, should be a bipartisan issue.

— Jake Auchincloss