Inflation Quote by Scott Bessent

If you put tariffs in place, it creates inflation. If you put inflation in place, you have to raise interest rates. You raise interest…

— Bill Browder

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

President Trump's first-term tariffs did not raise the prices of the affected goods, despite predictions back then that the tariffs would prove inflationary. Indeed,…

— Scott Bessent

Why is it inflationary if the people keep their own money, and spend it the way they want to, [but] not inflationary if the…

— Ronald Reagan

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of…

— Robert Higgs

No one thinks of controlling inflation of a continental-sized country by holding back municipal tariffs. Macroeconomic stability cannot be achieved through microeconomic intervention.

— Fernando Haddad

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

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

Workers' wages are not keeping up with inflation. Their wages are not on pace with the amount of work that they do. We work…

— Nina Turner

We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the…

— Dilma Rousseff

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

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

— Milton Friedman