Quotes About Inflation

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

Concluye que una vez que una nación se acostumbra a endeudarse, le es casi imposible llegar a pagar las enormes obligaciones que contrae. Y condena con dureza a los Estados que, para pagar artificialmente lo que deben, desvalorizan sus monedas, con lo que pagan sólo una parte generalmente pequeña de las deudas que contrajeron.

degradó cuando aquéllos, que recibían salarios de acuerdo al número de palabras que usaban en sus peroratas, empezaron a hinchar sus discursos para ganar más.

The Great Depression, the 1973 oil crisis, the rapid inflation of the late '70s, the British sterling crisis of 1976, Black Monday in 1987, the dot-com bubble of 2000, the housing bust in 2008, the 28% drop in gold prices in 2013—all of these surprises caught most investments professionals way off guard.

Ray then revealed the most simple and important distinction of all. There are only four things that move the price of assets: 1. inflation, 2. deflation, 3. rising economic growth, and 4. declining economic growth.

TIPS: First created in 1997, these Treasury inflation-protected securities protect you against spikes in inflation.

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We know we can't sit on the sidelines, on the edge of the riverbank, because inflation will destroy us if we just sit on our cash. So, alongside our neighbors and colleagues, we journey down to the water with trepidation, and when we least expect it: chomp!

In fact, some investment advisors say the only completely safe bond is one backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. And you can actually buy US bonds called Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, that rise in value to keep up with inflation through the consumer price index.

Shiller found that when he adjusted for inflation, US housing prices have been nearly flat for a century! He exploded one of the biggest myths of our time: that home prices keep going up and up. "Unless there's a bubble," he told me. And we all know what eventually happens to bubbles.

First, they could stay in cash, which means they are losing money due to inflation. Or

For the 20-year period from December 31, 1993, to December 31, 2013, the S&P 500 returned 9.2% annually, but the average mutual fund investor averaged just over 2.5%, barely beating inflation.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85.

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.

It is important to recognise near- and medium-term risks to the inflation outlook.

All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat?

Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.

We've probably gotten 500 calls from people saying what the heck is going on with gas, and I gotta say I agree with you. What the heck is going on with gas?

Moreover, stable prices foster saving and capital formation, because when the risk of erosion of asset values resulting from inflation—and the need to guard against such losses—are minimized, households are encouraged to save more and businesses are encouraged to invest more. (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 2009)

He talked about the struggling economy, rising inflation, and declining American power abroad.

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.

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.