Absurd Quote by Thomas Woods

If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate…

— Henry Hazlitt

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 advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians…

— Henry Hazlitt

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

— David Ricardo

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

— William Vickrey

The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with…

— Henry Hazlitt

Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a…

— L. Neil Smith

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.

— John J. Beckley

Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it.

— Frederick Leith-Ross

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.

— Joseph Salerno