Inflationary Quotes

#1. 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.

William Vickrey

#2. I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

Paul Ryan

#3. In the Inflationary Multiverse, our universe could well be an island oasis in a gigantic but largely inhospitable cosmic archipelago.

Brian Greene

#4. Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions.

Peter D. Schiff

#5. Non-inflationary economic growth - an increase in the production of goods and services - is structurally necessary for the current money system to exist. That is what drives the relentless conversion of life into money.

Charles Eisenstein

#6. Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

Will Durant

#7. Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Will Durant

#8. A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.

Adi Godrej

#9. While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.

Murray Rothbard

#10. Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II ... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.

John Chamberlain

#11. Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.

James Dale Davidson

#12. Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve the problem of inflationary depression or of the business cycle.

Murray Rothbard

#13. Restrictionistic ideas have never met with any measure of popular sympathy except after a time of monetary depreciation when it has been necessary to decide what should take the place of the abandoned inflationary policy.

Ludwig Von Mises

#14. Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses

Warren Buffett

#15. I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.

Phil Ochs

#16. According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.

Harry Enfield

#17. It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale.

Jared Bernstein

#18. In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

Warren Buffett

#19. One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.

Joseph Silk

#20. I think the concern over rising interest rates is ahead of itself because I think inflationary fears themselves might be premature,

Sung Won Sohn

#21. Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.

Joseph Salerno

#22. I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

Leonard Woodcock

#23. Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

Mark Skousen

#24. I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older. You can't just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.

Suzanne Crough

#25. Well, a lot of things surprised me. There were things that I had never thought about, in my life. I never thought about how loud prison was. I've never thought about how your ears never really get a break from all this noise. That was actually replicated on our set pretty well.

Taylor Schilling

#26. Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

Stephen King

#27. You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.

Frank Zappa

#28. I'd learned I didn't need kindling - I was kindling. ("Red")

Alyxandra Harvey

#29. The Lion does not concern himself with the opinions of the sheep

Game Of Thrones

#30. Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

Mario Draghi

#31. If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

Timothy Keller

#32. He'd have to be blinder than a bat. ~Alexander

Ellen Schreiber

#33. The urge to fall to the ground, rip my heart out of my chest and hold it out like a sacred offering was overwhelming. /Take it! Take it all!/ I'd cry.

Mariana Zapata