Inflation Quotes

“Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A gap of silence”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

“Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
― James Garfield

“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

“...Inflation had risen to the unimaginable figure of just over 100,000 percent by the end of 1947--and it was to go to 2,870,000 percent by the end of 1948...”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.”
― Alan H. Guth

“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which at all times in history has been caused by direct government action or by government influence. As for aggravated unemployment, the individualist insists that it is exclusively the result of government intervention through inflation, wage rigidities, burdensome taxes, and restrictions on trade and production such as price controls and tariffs. The inflation that comes inevitably with government pump-priming soon catches up with the laborer, wipes away any real increase in his wages, discourages private investment, and sets off a new deflationary spiral which can in turn only be counteracted by more coercive and paternalistic government policies. And so it is that the "long run" is very soon a-coming, and the harmful effects of government intervention are far more durable than those that are sustained by encouraging the unhampered free market to work out its own destiny.”
― William F. Buckley Jr., God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

“Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand. But in terms of the actual production and exchange of real things it is not.”
― Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson

“Inflation is taxation without legislation”
― Milton Friedman

“Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty:

"'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may occur before September 1983. The one place it could cut or reduce is item 7, the simultaneous interpreter services, if these services could be provided gratis by the U.S. government.'"

"In other words, the only way to make a saving on a U.S.-subsidized project is to take money out of another U.S.-subsidized column.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Inflation hurts us all. Today I'm seeing inflation at the grocery store, the leisure sector, and even on my golf scorecard. Yes, The Central Bank is to blame for my horrendous game.”
― Jarod Kintz, To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“I have good news and bad news. The good news is we will all soon be billionaires. The bad news is that by the time that day comes, the dollar will be so devalued that your billions may not purchase your weekly groceries.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“It has been said that no war has been fought without inflation. If we could ever devise a monetary system where inflation was absolutely prohibited, the chance of war breaking out would be greatly reduced. If we had to immediately pay for our foreign entanglements, people would not tolerate paying the bill with higher taxation. It's the meddling in the internal affairs of other nations that brings about the conditions that result in armed conflict. Not initially financing foreign intervention would make us much less likely to get involved in no-win, totally unnecessary wars.”
― Ron Paul, End the Fed

“Every man of my age has had in his youth one blessing for which our juniors may well envy him: we grew up in a world of cheap and abundant books.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Her name is Penny. That's another way to be called worthless. She can thank inflation and Central Bankers.”
― Jarod Kintz, Me and memes and memories

“Money is the tool of men who have reached a high level of productivity and a long-range control over their lives. Money is not merely a tool of exchange: much more importantly, it is a tool of saving, which permits delayed consumption, and buys time for future production.”
― Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It

“Beat inflation, don't buy balloons”
― Benny Bellamacina, You Are Only Limited By Your Own Imagination

“Whenever any nation entrusts to its legislators the issue of a currency not based on the idea of redemption in standard coin recognized in the commerce of civilized nations, it entrusts to them the power to raise or depress the value of every article in the possession of every citizen.”
― Andrew Dickson White, Fiat Money in France: How it Came, What it Brought, and How it Ended

“The greater the speed of circulation, that is, the more often the money is passed from hand to hand, the less money is needed in circulation. Paper money is stable only when its quantity does not exceed the requirements of the circulation of commodities.”
― A. Alekseyev, The Basic Economic Law of Modern Capitalism

“Housing is out of reach to the masses!”
― Steven Magee

“Rents have gone astronomical!”
― Steven Magee

“The Producer Price Index measures the average change -over time – in prices domestic producers receive for their output. Whereas “retail” constitutes prices reflected through the sale of goods and services to the public for their own consumption – not for resale – the Producer Price Index measures the cost of goods and services at the wholesale level.


Each month, the Producer Price Index is published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Typically, the Producer Price Index is released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics the second week of the month.”
― Ted Ihde, Thinking About Becoming A Real Estate Developer?

“Floods? Power cuts? Inflation? The population just shrugs and keeps going. Now that’s efficient survival!”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

“Consumption is Falling → Reduce inflation, boost middle-class spending power, and provide tax relief to increase disposable income.”
― Dipti Dhakul,

“The phrase, ‘dollars to donuts’ came suddenly to mind. Because of the last several decades of hyperinflation, the phrase has been replaced by ‘donuts to dollars,’ the former having so much more value now than the latter. David was amused that the juxtaposed saying held true despite being entirely reversed from its original meaning.”
― Daniel Thorman, The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure

“Bitcoin shifts monetary control from institutions to mathematical rules, creating "hard money" resistant to arbitrary inflation or manipulation.”
― Gun Gun Febrianza

“Inflation is caused by money printing. Period.”
― Daniella Liberati, Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity

“Wage workers are unconsciously trading their limited lifetime for abundant pieces of paper that are designed to steal their lifetime”
― Daniella Liberati

“Taxes, politics, and working for money no longer make any sense when we realize that it would take millions of years to pay back global debt.”
― Daniella Liberati, Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity

“You want your money to be invested so it can make you money in a way that exceeds the inflation rate.”
― Tammy Trenta, Wisdom to Be Wealthy: Accelerate to the Top 1% and Create Generational Wealth Using the Family Office Blueprint