Quotes About Inflation Rate

#1. For individuals whose only capital is a small balance in a checking account, the return is negative, because such balances yield no interest and are eaten away by inflation. Savings accounts often yield little more than the inflation rate.

Thomas Piketty

#2. After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction.

Ben Bernanke

#3. Average" isn't so hot at the race track given those steep track takes. "Average" is pretty decent for stocks, something like 6 percent above the inflation rate. For a buy-and -hold investor, commissions and taxes are small.

William Poundstone

#4. The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a war against inflation, and you always knew which way you wanted the inflation rate to go over the long run
down.

Paul McCulley

#5. You have the legs and other also have it; they have the brain and you have it! Stop thinking you can't transact the business that others can. If you do, you are raising your inflation rate!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

Edmund Phelps

#7. You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.

Mitt Romney

#8. The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.

James Cook

#9. If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?

Sen No Rikyu

#10. I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

Katherine Dunn

#11. We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#12. When you are growing at a rapid rate, there is bound to be some inflation. I think a 5% rate of inflation is something that we should take in our stride.

Adi Godrej

#13. Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Charles Bukowski

#14. I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.

James Douglas

#15. They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.

Franklin Raines

#16. I had no right to be in love. I had nothing to offer her. But reason drowned in the beat of my heart, and I asked permission to kiss her.#Ren

Colleen Houck

#17. The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. 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.

Uday Kotak

#19. People will make worse financial decisions for them if they're choosing from a lot of options than if they're choosing from a few options. If they have more options they're more likely to avoid stocks and put all their money in money market accounts, which doesn't even grow at the rate of inflation.

Sheena Iyengar

#20. In most Western economies, the general relationship is not in fact between the rate of inflation and the level of unemployment, but between the rate of change of inflation and the rate of change of unemployment.

Paul Ormerod

#21. The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

Gary Inbinder

#22. I like the idea of not looking at trends, not being driven by them. I like what I like and that's it.

Erin Wasson

#23. There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

Ha-Joon Chang

#24. It is not the poverty of individuals and the community, not indebtedness to foreign nations, not the unfavourableness of the conditions of production, that force up the rate of exchange, but inflation.

Ludwig Von Mises

#25. At a rate of 3 percent inflation, the buying power of unprotected income plunges by half over a 20-year period.

Jonathan Peterson

#26. In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.

Hugo Rossi

#27. The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

Al Pacino

#28. the rate of increase of inflation is decreasing

Richard Nixon

#29. Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Arthur Henderson

#30. A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

Tom Landry

#31. I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.

Richard Dooling

#32. Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.

Suze Orman

#33. I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Louis Navellier

#34. A crucial responsibility of any central bank is to control inflation, the average rate of increase in the prices of a broad group of goods and services.

Janet Yellen

#35. If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.

William Vickrey

#36. No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.

Mark Zandi