Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nomi...
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.
We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintai...
To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the...
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 ...
Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.
I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.
Production is the only answer to inflation.
Labor is sacrificed on the inflation rates altar of oblation.
Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.
I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money supply. And - if it insists, it can worry about inflation.
Patience is a balloon,the longer you have it,the more it inflates to burst.
Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.
Inflation is taxation without representation.
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.
Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.
