Inflation Quotes

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it.
Frederick Leith-Ross

Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.
William D. Tammeus

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.
Leon Henderson

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin P. Adams

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?

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

By issuing our own money we can eliminate all income taxes and employment taxes and the national debt would cease to exist.

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.

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

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

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

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

Steel prices cause inflation like wet sidewalks cause rain.
Roger Blough

Inflation is the senility of democracies.
Sylvia Townsend Warner

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.

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

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

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.







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