Inflation Quotes

Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth.

Unknown

Law of inflation: whatever goes up will go up some more.

Unknown

If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage.

Unknown

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Robert Orben

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

The doves in this country and some of the media are the cause of fifty-some-odd-thousand Americans being killed and all that money being spent, and all that inflation.

George Wallace

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Alan Greenspan

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.

Bill Vaughn

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Steel prices cause inflation like wet sidewalks cause rain.

Roger Blough

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

William E. Simon

If you're aiming at a million, inflation will increase your chance of succeeding.

Unknown

I wasn't affected by inflation - I had nothing to inflate.

Gerald Barzan

Invest in inflation. It's the only thing going up.

Will Rogers

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered peoples savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.

Ayn Rand

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

William Vickrey

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

Leon Henderson

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

Alan Walters

We must not take our economic strength for granted. That's why it is critical that we continue to pay down the debt -- to keep inflation and interest rates low.

Bill Clinton

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

Lee Iacocca

Inflation is when sitting on your nest egg doesn't give you anything to crow about.

Unknown

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Robert Orben

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.

Martin Feldstein