Currency Quote by Murray Rothbard

Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank.

— Milton Friedman

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase…

— Milton Friedman

The unique aspect of today's monetary inflation is that it is not limited to one country, but a host of countries are all inflating…

— Peter DeGraaf

What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in…

— Ludwig von Mises

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain…

— Martin Feldstein

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

— George Bernard Shaw

The Debasement of World Currency:It Is Inflation, But Not As We Know It

— Chris Powell

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper…

— Lysander Spooner

Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.

— Ludwig von Mises

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

— Walter E. Williams

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.

— Ella T. Grasso

Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth.

— Henry Hazlitt