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When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.
— James Laver
Inflation is taxation without legislation
— Milton Friedman
Production is the only answer to inflation.
— Chester Bowles
Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.
— Milton Friedman
War has brought inflation even to the graveyard.
— Saadat Hasan Manto
The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.
— Stephen Hawking
During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.
— Warren Buffett
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
— Denis Healey
Inflation is the senility of democracies.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.
— Mary Johnson
Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.
— Norman Lamont
Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4%
— Narendra Modi
Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.
— Michael Hudson
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
— Azim Premji
Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.
— Ella T. Grasso
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
Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.
— John W. Snow
We are trained to be employees, but no one said that we have endure a limited salary that barely keeps pace with inflation.
— Carlos Roche
You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.
— Mitt Romney
Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.
— Will Rogers
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
By focusing only on jobs and inflation - and, in effect, only on the former - the Fed behaved myopically, indeed politically.
— Raghuram G. Rajan
Word inflation ... Bigger and better. Good greater greatest totally great. Hyperbolic and hyperbolicker. Like grade-inflation.
— David Foster Wallace
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
— Jack Kemp
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.
— Murray Rothbard
Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment.
— Henry Hazlitt
Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.
— Robert Orben
Labor is sacrificed on the inflation rates altar of oblation.
— Richard Gwynn
To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
— Janet Yellen
Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.
— Vanna Bonta
Low and stable inflation in many countries is an important accomplishment that will continue to bring significant benefits.
— Ben Bernanke
The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.
— Russ Roberts
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.
— Milton Friedman
Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.
— Alan Cranston
If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.
— Walter E. Williams
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
— John Maynard Keynes
I feel very uncomfortable with respect to looking at inflation.
— Arthur Laffer
We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government
— Sunday Adelaja
I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
— Jimmy Buffett
Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
— Walter E. Williams
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
— Ray Dalio
Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.
— Timothy Noah
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
— Jean Cocteau
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
If we all had what we wanted to eat ... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.
— Jim Thompson
Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.
— Kenneth Rogoff
Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.
— Spiro T. Agnew
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
— Milton Friedman
It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.
— Paul A. Volcker
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
— Martin Feldstein
Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.
— Margaret Thatcher
If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
— George Bernard Shaw
Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
— Robert Reich
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
— Thomas Sowell
You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.
— Paul Krugman
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[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.
— Milton Friedman
We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.
— Hank Williams Jr.
Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.
— James Cook
Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
— Ben Bernanke
Inflation is repudiation.
— Calvin Coolidge
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
— Victor Borge
Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.
— Jacques Rueff
In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.
— Lysander Spooner
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
— Robert Reich
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
— Herbert Hoover
Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.
— Ludwig Von Mises
There's one thing that the Fed has been really good at cracking down on, and that's inflation.
— Paul Krugman
Life in the fast lane," Michael's reply. "You have to adjust for inflation.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.
— Joe Walsh
