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- Nov 07, 2020
Inflation Quotes
Sharp lines on prices, policy, and economic pressure
These inflation quotes range from stark warnings about taxation eroding wealth to calmer notes on how deficits alone don't dictate prices. Pair them with our Economy quotes for the bigger picture.
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- Balanced Budget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
- Value
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
- Crush
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have been mandated by the government, backed by legislation, that we have to have an inflation target of about 4%.
- Outlook
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to recognise near- and medium-term risks to the inflation outlook.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the Fed dumps inflation targeting and the U.S. abandons its weak-dollar policy, inflation will rule the day.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.
- Imagine
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020