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• Steel prices cause inflation like wet sidewalks cause rain.

  Roger Blough

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inflation

• Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker’s job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.

  James Surowiecki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inflation, Investors

• Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they’re not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.

  James Surowiecki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inflation, Focus

• Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they’re likely to increase prices, since they’ve learned that if they don’t, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked.

  James Surowiecki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Alert, Inflation

• The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

  Mark Skousen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inflation, Consumer

• Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation – all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith’s vision of an opulent society.

  Mark Skousen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inflation, Excessive

• Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trade, Inflation

• When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Down, Growth, Inflation

• 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.

  Gavyn Davies

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inflation, Serious, Problem

• I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.

  Victor Borge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inflation, Daylight

• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Inflation, Percent, Maybe

• Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inflation, Man

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

  Sam Ewing

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Inflation, Haircut, Five, Dollars, Fifteen, Used, Get, Had, Hair, Pay

• By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation.

  Paul Volcker

  Tags in Inflation, Urgency

• Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing – and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

  Paul Volcker

  Tags in Inflation, Double Digit

• You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just – that was America.

  Paul Volcker

  Tags in Inflation, Get Ahead, Assuming

• Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

  Robert Orben

  Tags in Inflation