Causes Quote by Walter Wriston

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

— Walter E. Williams

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

It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the…

— Jared Bernstein

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

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

“the rate of increase of inflation is decreasing”

— Richard Nixon

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

— Milton Friedman

Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.

— Venita VanCaspel

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

— Murray Rothbard

The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment,…

— Henry Hazlitt

Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

— James Cook

Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth.

— Henry Hazlitt