Quotes About Inflation

In the three years after Obamacare was signed into law in 2010, the costs did not go down $2,500 per family as promised. They went up $2,581 a family. Yes, inflation would have pushed the costs of insurance coverage up regardless of Obamacare, but not that much, nor that quickly.

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

Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.

Monetary policy will, as always, respond to the economy's twists and turns so as to promote, as best as we can in an uncertain economic environment, the employment and inflation goals.

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

High inflation rates may come along and diminish purchasing power.

Most people who are poor have their money in a bank account that earns negligible interest. With the rapid inflation that we have because of rampant government spending, the people are losing purchasing power - they're actually becoming poorer.

With interest rates artificially low, consumers reduce savings in favor of consumption, and entrepreneurs increase their rates of investment spending.

This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.

By discouraging saving and encouraging consumption, accelerating inflation had stimulated output and employment

When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

as inflation has fallen, so bonds have rallied in what has been one of the great bond bull markets of modern history. Even more remarkably, despite the spectacular Argentine default - not to mention Russia's in 1998 - the spreads on emerging market bonds have trended steadily downwards, reaching lows in early 2007 that had not been seen since before the First World War, implying an almost unshakeable confidence in the economic future.

figures must be adjusted downwards to take account of the cost of living, which has risen by a factor of nearly seven in my lifetime.

Inflation has come down partly because many of the items we buy, from clothes to computers, have got cheaper as a result of technological innovation and the relocation of production to low-wage economies in Asia.

Meanwhile, property prices roughly trebled between 1963 and 1979, while consumer prices rose by a factor of just 2.5. But there was a sting in the tail. The same governments that avowed their faith in the 'property-owning democracy' also turned out to believe in price stability, or at least lower inflation. Achieving that meant higher interest rates.

public expectations of inflation to shift and the demand for cash balances to fall

En ambas economías el caos fiscal se aunaba con la inflación rampante, que en Alemania evocaba la hiperinflación de 1923.Y ¿no había sido Hitler el «hijo adoptivo de la inflación»?88

Pure monetary theory, however, cannot explain why in one country the inflationary process proceeds so much further or faster than in another.

In real terms, stocks increased by a factor of 10.3; bonds by a factor of 3.4; bills by a factor of 1.8. Had my parents made the mistake of simply buying $10,000 in dollar bills in 1964, the real value of their son's nest egg would have declined in real terms by 85 per cent.

The masses long ago switched from stocks to investments having higher yields and more protection from inflation. Now the pension funds - the market's last hope - have won permission to quit stocks and bonds for real estate, futures, gold, and even diamonds. The death of equities looks like an almost permanent condition.5