Inflation Quote by William Vickrey

An acceptable level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

— Anonymous

Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.

— Warren Buffett

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

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

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

— Denis Healey

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

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.

— Janet Yellen

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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 higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.

— Norman Lamont

“If ordinary citizens knew or ever really [understood] how our political leaders have allowed unemployment to be used as a tool for fine-tuning the…

— William Vickery, Canadian Nobel laureate, The Cult of Impotence, by Linda McQuaig

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool…

— Henry Hazlitt