Inflation Quote by Murray Rothbard Download Open image “The natural tendency of the state is inflation.” — Murray Rothbard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inflation Natural Nature States Tendencies
The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money. — Russ Roberts Copy Share Image
You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and will use… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Like so much else in Washington, inflation has become a political football. That's unnecessary. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important directions to be pursued in the 'sciences of human action' is to develop a natural-law ethics based… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it. — Murray Rothbard 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
