Inflation Quotes - page 2

The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with inflation edging up and a substantial current account deficit...people understandably feel more confident about their future than they've done for decades, but as a result they have been borrowing more and saving less...coming on top of a massive income investment boom, it's all been just a bit too much of a good thing. (Nigel Lawson)
Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities. View quote
David Harvey
I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. View quote
Mark Skousen
Invest in inflation. It's the only thing going up. View quote
Will Rogers
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. View quote
Elizabeth Hardwick
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. View quote
Milton Friedman
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings. View quote
Ludwig von Mises
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook. View quote
George Meredith
There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth. (Ray Dalio)
What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor anything, it is uncertainty. Expect bond and stock market volatility to increase from here until the inflation outlook solidifies. View quote
Scott Anderson
Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation. View quote
Suze Orman
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man. View quote
Philip K. Dick
A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those who do not create wealth but instead seek to extract wealth from others through inflation, inside information, and market manipulation. View quote
James Rickards
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues. View quote
James Surowiecki
Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are. View quote
James Surowiecki
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. View quote
Sam Ewing
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level. View quote
William Vickrey
Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation. View quote
William Vickrey
When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do. (Paul Volcker)
It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had. View quote
Paul Volcker
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. View quote
Paul Volcker
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. View quote
Jack Kemp
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. View quote
Barbara Jordan