Inflation Quotes
Sharp lines on prices, policy, and economic pressure
These inflation quotes range from stark warnings about taxation eroding wealth to calmer notes on how deficits alone don't dictate prices. Pair them with our Economy quotes for the bigger picture.
You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged.
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
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If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Adjusted Quotes
We have been mandated by the government, backed by legislation, that we have to have an inflation target of about 4%.
It is important to recognise near- and medium-term risks to the inflation outlook.
During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.
Until the Fed dumps inflation targeting and the U.S. abandons its weak-dollar policy, inflation will rule the day.
Against Quotes
Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.
We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
Economy Quotes
When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.
Under Reagan's policies, inflation and nominal GNP growth shriveled much faster than predicted, throwing off government revenue estimates and resulting in budget deficits.
It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.
Expectations Quotes
Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.
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Some voices here treat inflation as a threat to guard Against, while others focus on managing Expectations around future price risk.
