Inflation Quotes
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When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
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What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.
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Inflation is up, driven by energy prices. Underlying core rates remain low, which is encouraging.
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Low and stable inflation in many countries is an important accomplishment that will continue to bring significant benefits.
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To support continued healthy growth, vigilance in regard to inflation is essential.
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When prices are stable, people can hold money for transactions and other purposes without having to worry that inflation will eat away at the real value of their money balances.
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The inflation objective is explicitly a long-term or medium term objective. It focuses on, for example, core inflation to avoid getting involved in short-term fluctuations in energy prices and the like.
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To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation.
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Inflation is not even a remote risk in the U.S.. Because inflation is so low, monetary policy can afford to be patient to be sure that the recovery is sustained.
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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.
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The credibility has begun to inure in the institution. Keeping inflation low and stable is an important precondition for a healthy and sustained economic growth.
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The best way that a central bank can support growth on a durable basis is to ensure inflation is low, stable - there is financial stability - and that is the role that the central bank plays.
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The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
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These inflation effects should fade even if energy prices remain elevated, so long as monetary policy keeps inflation expectations well-anchored.
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Our assessment currently is that the risks to inflation are perhaps the more significant at the moment, and we need to address that.
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Providing quantitative guidance about the meaning of 'long-term price stability' could have several advantages, including further reducing public uncertainty about monetary policy and anchoring long-term inflation expectations even more effectively.
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Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
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With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.
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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.
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Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.
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Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.
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A very important factor is the fact that inflation expectations are well-controlled and well-contained, which means that the Federal Reserve, unlike the 70s, doesn't have to react violently in terms of raising interest rates to contain the second- and third-round inflationary impacts. So I remain pretty optimistic about the economy.
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However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.
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Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation.
