Quotes on Inflation

Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.

Author: Tim Bishop

Production is the only answer to inflation.

Author: Chester Bowles

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Author: Milton Friedman

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Author: Milton Friedman

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Author: Vladimir Lenin

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Author: Robert Orben

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.

Author: Shimon Peres

Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the marketplace and out to the street - rates that individuals can get.

Author: Franklin Raines

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

Author: Ronald Reagan

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.

Author: Robert Reich

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.

Author: Cliff Stearns

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

Author: 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.

Author: William Vickrey

It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.

Author: 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.

Author: Paul Volcker

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

Author: Sylvia Warner