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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. ↗

— Robert Orben

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And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have. ↗

— Kevin Brady

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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

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Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

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In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today. ↗

— Peter Thiel

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