Inflation Quotes

• Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Money
  • Government
  • Positive

• Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Government
  • Causes
  • Enterprise

• Near-zero policy rates that may be considerably expansionary in an economy with high inflation could be contractionary when inflation is too close to zero, or worse, deflation has set in.

  

  Athanasios Orphanides
  • Inflation
  • Zero
  • Rates

• Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Situation
  • Levels
  • Unemployment

• When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.

  

  Ray Dalio
  • Inflation
  • Stocks
  • Bonds

• Yes, 4% is the government-mandated target to the MPC. The plus/minus 2 percentage-point upper and lower bands are the tolerance levels specified by the government. If we breach those for three consecutive quarters, we need to inform the government of why that happened and what we propose to do to bring inflation within the two bands.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Tolerance
  • Levels
  • Target

• The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

  

  Thomas Woods
  • Values
  • Absurd
  • Rendering

• Life is full of uncertainties. Future investment earnings and interest and inflation rates are not known to anybody. However, I can guarantee you one thing.. those who put an investment program in place will have a lot more money when they come to retire than those who never get around to it.

  

  Noel John Whittaker
  • Life
  • Investment
  • Inflation

• If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Economic
  • Prosperity
  • Desperation

• I see inflation as remaining well-contained going forward.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Forward
  • Inflation

• There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.

  

  Ray Dalio
  • Growth
  • Drivers
  • Returns

• If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.

  

  George Gobel
  • Work
  • Dog
  • Inflation

• Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.

  

  Gary Shilling
  • World
  • Capacity
  • Conviction

• Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing.

  

  William McChesney Martin
  • Purpose
  • Inflation
  • Deflation

• Growth is always there in the MPC's scheme of things; we don't lose sight of that, but not at the cost of inflation.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Growth
  • Inflation
  • MPC

• 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
  • Price
  • Inflation
  • Unemployment

• We have been mandated by the government, backed by legislation, that we have to have an inflation target of about 4%.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Government
  • Target
  • Mandated

• You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Inflation
  • Examples

• Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again.

  

  Karl Otto Pohl
  • Again
  • Inflation
  • Toothpaste

• If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

  

  William Greider
  • Values
  • Wealth
  • Inflation

• When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Tools
  • Inflation
  • Fed

• The bond market has been zigzagging this year. Every time the Fed acts, and the feeling in the market is that the economy is going to bounce back strongly, it causes pain for bonds because it threatens inflation.

  

  Eric Jacobson
  • Pain
  • Economy
  • Market

• If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. ... There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Planning
  • Attack
  • Space aliens

• With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.

  

  Catherine Austin Fitts
  • Clever
  • Labor
  • Stealing

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