#inflation

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 A. Volcker

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I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#apples #base #bumper #cannot #colonial

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

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Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#education #falling #good #growing #indicators

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#bourgeoisie #crush #grind #inflation #taxation

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

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We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#costs #freeze #give #imagine #industrialists

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

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Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the marketplace and out to the street - rates that individuals can get. ↗

— Franklin Raines

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Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings. ↗

— Robert Orben

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