Quotes of Inflation - somelinesforyou

“ I wasn't affected by inflation, I had nothing to inflate. ”

- Gerald Barzan

“ The numbers today will confirm what the Fed's been saying — they're concerned about inflation, but they don't think it's an imminent concern. ”

- John Hughes

“ There is a degree of market uncertainty that he could be less of an inflation fighter than Greenspan and the fact that he is new and untested. ”

- John McCarthy

“ While this stellar non-inflationary economic expansion still appears remarkably stress-free on the surface, there are developing imbalances that give us pause. ”

- Alan Greenspan

“ Someone said that inflation is like jumping off the top of the Empire State Building. The sensation is great as long as you keep on going. ”

- David H. Scott

“ One good thing can be said for inflation: without it there would be no football. ”

- Marty Ragaway

“ 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

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

- Milton Friedman

“ Inflation is determined by money supply growth. ”

- Roger Bootle

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

- Ronald Reagan

“ Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant. ”

- Leon Henderson

“ Short-term, what the market is taking from the GDP report is that inflation is higher, and there's less economic growth than we thought, and that's putting a crimp on things today. ”

- Peter Green

“ 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. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

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

- Milton Friedman

“ There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel. ”

- Franklin P. Adams

“ Remember when $25, 000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector. ”

- Frank Dane

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

- Unknown

“ Inflation is taxation without legislation. ”

- Milton Friedman

“ I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal. ”

- Olga Korbut

“ If you look at the big picture, I think the whole THG, designer drug scandal is a good thing for the sport,... Every time someone gets caught I see that as a positive, because it is an effort to clean up the sport. We really have to look at drug use in sports, whether track and field or any other sport, just like you would look at crime in society… ”

- Michael Johnson

“ Imagine believing in the control of inflation by curbing the money supply! That is like deciding to stop your dog fouling the sidewalk by plugging up its rear end. It is highly unlikely to succeed, but if it does it kills the hound. ”

- Michael D. Stephens

“ We are not starting off with the proposition that inflation is a big bogey and that we will construct all sorts of arguments... thwart it. ”

- Alan Greenspan

“ It's something of a triumph for Guth and the people who developed the inflation scenario that 25 years later we get this level of detail and confirmation of inflation. ”

- Paul Davies

“ There's no question that inflation has occurred, and $75 million is not the same today as it was then. That said, from where we sit, what's past is past. ”

- Glenn Miller

“ An increase in inflation doggedly forecast to follow the ever lower unemployment rate — now the lowest in three decades — has not occurred. ”

- Alan Greenspan

“ We think that relative softness in the euro zone recovery next year combined with inflation falling below two percent, will leave the ECB stuck on 2.5 percent rates for a considerable period. ”

- David Brown

“ A year ago some said that the doubling of oil prices would push our inflation far beyond target and that a recession was required to slow the increase in house prices. ”

- Gordon Brown

“ We have met our inflation target this year every year since 1997. ”

- Gordon Brown
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