Inflation Quote by Kenneth Rogoff Download Open image “Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.” — Kenneth Rogoff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inflation Measles Might Plague Worry
In this age of inflation has become too expensive to die / Before, die and be expensive, I think / still cheap even in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inflation has now become like water cycle. It has kept its momentum over the years and no one really cares for it!!! — Navinchandra 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, '60s and… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
With the sugar market hysteria, the people are obviously worried and expect higher inflation. When this hysteria subsides, which we're probably observing, then I… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it. — Frederick Leith-Ross Copy Share Image
I think the concern over rising interest rates is ahead of itself because I think inflationary fears themselves might be premature, — Sung Won Sohn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions. — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer,… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society. — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before. — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Cash is very easy to hide. It's easy to hoard. It's easy to move, especially these large bills. — Kenneth Rogoff 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 a hen… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
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 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 happened. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again. — Karl Otto Pohl Copy Share Image
Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
It's good news that he is proposing to restore budget cuts that he made, but the reality is that he is still proposing a… — James Rosapepe Copy Share Image
By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures… — Paul A. Volcker Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image