Economics Quote by Scott Bessent

The inflation comes through either increasing the money supply or increasing the government spending, and that's what happened under Biden.

— Scott Bessent

The Biden Administration is already punishing hardworking Americans with high energy costs, high inflation, skyrocketing taxes, and a recklessly unbalanced budget.

— George Santos

The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a war against…

— Paul McCulley

Inflation, interest rates and immigration - the three I's - have created a toxic economic mix for the bottom 50% of American wage earners…

— Scott Bessent

I continue to think many of the factors holding down inflation are transitory... We want to be careful not to jump to a premature…

— Janet Yellen

The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that…

— Laurence Kotlikoff

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

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

— John Maynard Keynes

The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.

— Russ Roberts

If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

— Ludwig von Mises

The financial crisis and the Great Recession posed the most significant macroeconomic challenges for the United States in a half-century, leaving behind high unemployment…

— Jerome Powell

The U.S. must reform the Inflation Reduction Act's distortionary incentives that encourage unproductive investment, which has to be sustained by a lifetime of subsidies.

— Scott Bessent