Quotes About Inflation

If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would be worrisome.

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

I will say this: the central banks can actually support growth beyond a point. When there is no inflation, they can cut interest rates, and that is the way they support growth, but if you cut interest rate to the bone, there is nothing more to cut. It is very hard to support growth beyond that.

If inflation is brought down, interest rates will fall. Once rates fall, we have the opportunity to maybe achieve the goal of 'housing for all' faster; take roads, infrastructure to India's interiors.

The degree of monetary policy ease should be associated with the level of real interest rates, not nominal interest rates.

Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise.

What we have to be careful is that if we drop interest rates where the rate of interest is lower than inflation, then savers will not put money in financial savings and move it to gold and real estate, which is bad for India.

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

Below-target inflation increases the real value of debts owed by households and businesses and reduces the ability of central banks to respond to downturns.

Austerity policy without currency devaluation can only hamper economic growth.

College mostly makes people like bladders— just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

The threat of gold redeemability imposes a constant check and limit on inflationary issues of government paper. If the government can remove the threat, it can expand and inflate without cease. And so it begins to emit propaganda, trying to persuade the public not to use gold coins in their daily lives.

It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising interest rates when the economy is growing too fast and inflation threatens.

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

Under Reagan's policies, inflation and nominal GNP growth shriveled much faster than predicted, throwing off government revenue estimates and resulting in budget deficits.

Inflation is not an abstract idea thrown around by finance gurus. Inflation is a very real threat to the pocketbooks of hardworking Americans throughout our great country.

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

The expansionary operations of the Second Bank of the United States, coupled with its laxity toward insisting on specie payment by the state banks, impelled a further inflationary expansion of state banks on top of the spectacular enlargement of the central bank. Thus, the number of incorporated state banks rose from 232 in 1816 to 338 in 1818.

I used to watch Babe Ruth for 50 cents. Now, baseball tickets are $400!

Those days of despair, inflation, and worry about a sick child are irresistibly connected in my memory with the sight of Ketchup.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.