96 Quotes About Inflation

...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...

Pile up that gold around my head. I must take it with me to pay the ferryman.’‘I thought it was just a coin on the eyes or something.’‘Inflation. Also, I’ll take up rather a lot of room on the boat.

Der Glaube der mittelalterlichen Alchemisten, aus Blei Gold machen zu können, war eine Manifestation der nüchternen Vernunft im Vergleich zu dem neuzeitlichen Wahn, aus Papier Geld machen zu können.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

There are a lot of people missing in Iraq. Just the other day I heard of somebody asking $250,000 ransom for an Egyptian. Can you imagine? An Egyptian. That’s inflation. This war,” he said, leaning closer to her, “is all about money.

In reality high profits tend much more to raise the price of (a piece of) work than high wages. (quoting Adam Smith - ch.(III - From Corporatism to Democracy)

In 1968 there were about $200 billion dollars in the United States. Prices were not very high. In 2003 there were $1.3 trillion and prices are up.

We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.

Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive.