Inflation sayings

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◆ Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

- H Jackson Brown Jr99

◆ 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 Borge99

◆ Inflation is the senility of democracies

- Sylvia Townsend Warner99

◆ Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.

- William D Tammeus99

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

- Robert Orben99

◆ Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

- Milton Friedman99

◆ Inflation is taxation without legislation

- Milton Friedman99

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

- Ronald Reagan99

◆ Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it

- Frederick Leith-Ross99

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

- Sam Ewing99

◆ The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

- John Maynard Keynes99

◆ I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

- William E Simon99

◆ When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

- Paul A Volcker99

◆ Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

- Robert Orben99

◆ This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it.

- Jim Nussle99