Conservative Quote by Norman Lamont

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth…

— Norman Lamont

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per…

— William Vickrey

No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for…

— Arthur Laffer

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form…

— Walter Wriston

The Fed's buying is far more important to the market price of U.S. debt than any other economic variable. If the Fed stops buying,…

— Porter Stansberry

It's hard to put a figure on what level of inflation is appropriate. But I strongly feel that we would not be able to…

— Fumio Kishida

I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at…

— Paul Ryan

If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and…

— Milton Friedman

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a…

— William Vickrey

If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's…

— Jeremy Grantham