If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively. — Christine Lagarde
Technology is deflationary, we are entering into an age of deflation unlike any the world has ever seen. — Jeff Booth
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth. — John Mellencamp
Below-target inflation increases the real value of debts owed by households and businesses and reduces the ability of central banks to respond to downturns. — Jerome Powell
Positive inflation drains the energy from your life. Negative interest is an attempt to stop the flow of time. Channel your energy into Bitcoin and move forward toward the future you deserve. — Michael Saylor
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. — John Maynard Keynes
Its completely possible that the present inflation is largely stuck now because of wage-price dynamics, especially in services, and will only come down in a recession. — Philip Pilkington
It is necessary to clean up the Central Bank's interest-bearing liabilities, thus putting an end to money-printing and with it, the only empirically true and theoretically valid cause of inflation. — Javier Milei
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. — Milton Friedman
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
The signal is monetary expansion everywhere. The problem is people are going to lose half their wealth in a few years. The solution is Bitcoin. The rest is noise. — Michael Saylor
Inflation is a tax, and that tax can only be imposed by governments. — Russell Napier
Inflation is worse than you think, and Bitcoin is better than you know. — Michael Saylor
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. — Harry S Truman
Short Deflation Quotes
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end. — Barry Gibb
You can't rule out deflation just because you've never seen it in your lifetime. — Greg Mankiw
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation. — Jean Cocteau
Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing. — William McChesney Martin
Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time. — Lawrence Summers
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. — Graham Joyce
Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation. — Robert Kiyosaki
When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging. — Barack Obama
Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help. — Max Lucado
If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated. — Alexander Lowen
Inflation Quotes
Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation. — John Wayne
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. — Vladimir Lenin
Gold and Bitcoin also hedge against inflation, never pay negative interest, and when held directly are not subject to haircuts and do not depend on strangers keeping their promises. — Nick Szabo
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. — Ernest Hemingway
If inflation were to move up in ways that are unwelcome, we have the tools for that, and we will use them. No one should doubt that. — Jerome Powell
The problem with government-provided money is that its hardness depends entirely on the ability of those in charge to not inflate its supply. Only political constraints provide hardness, and there are no physical, economic, or natural constraints. — Saifedean Ammous
At the same time, given the situation of the Central Bank's liabilities, which is worse than it was during hyperinflation, in a very short time the amount of money could quadruple and thus raise inflation to levels of 15,000 percent per year. — Javier Milei
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery. — Karl Rove
Starting in the wake of the 2008 GFC global financial crisis, market observers have warned of a crash in the bond market. initially, it was believed that the trillions printed to bail out the banks would cause inflation and, therefore, a flight from bonds. — Max Keiser
GDP statistics evolved during the Industrial Age and do not seem to be keeping up with the digital age. Thanks to productivity, real GDP growth probably is higher and inflation lower than reported, suggesting that the quality of earnings has increased significantly. — Cathie Wood
The entire political class and ruling Wall Street class are zero-percent-interest zombies who talk about 'deflation' in the value of their second, third, and fourth homes. This is paper-deflation, zombie-deflation, and has nothing to do with the real economy. — Max Keiser
No-frill rappers: you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate,
as the great will dominate straight to the state
Of reignin', gainin'...So put Kane in
That category. Period. End of story. — Big Daddy Kane
The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers. — Ben Bernanke
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound. — Toshihiko Fukui
In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies. — Kevin DeYoung
It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers. — Ali Sina
I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. Ive seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life. — Vandana Shiva
The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity. — Joseph Pilates
A big secular thing going on is technology and deflation. This is where I think millennials are getting that it is an improvement in life, and they're taking advantage of it. — Ken Moelis
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms — Aristotle
Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art. — Gary Gygax
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? — Carl Sagan
With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation. — Catherine Austin Fitts
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. — Alistair Cooke
Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it. — Jerome Groopman
As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt. — Garson Kanin
No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that every inflation has been accompanied by a rapid increase in the quantity of money and every deflation by a decline in the quantity of money. — Milton Friedman
I've learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit. Knowing that now, in the future we will certainly inflate the footballs above that low level to account for any possible change during the game. — Bill Belichick
Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend. — Michael Hudson
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
Even the White House is weighing in on the deflate-gate scandal. Yesterday they encouraged Tom Brady to 'be mindful of the way he serves as a role model.' And then President Obama stuffed out his cigarette and went golfing at noon on a weekday. — Jimmy Fallon
Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world. — Gary Shilling
When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the 99% in debt are getting all the growth in wealth and income. Deflation means that income is being transferred to the 1%, that is, to the creditors and property owners. — Michael Hudson
The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades. — John L. Casti
Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half. — Lisa Birnbach
Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system regulated by agreements and norms. Anything that deflates the concept of dominance is likely to drive down the frequency of fights between individuals and wars. — Sayings
My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together. — Sylvester Stallone
We only gain collectively by acting now. We gain by one day not having to pay a thing for fuel. We gain by having cleaner air, water, and food so that we are healthier and our health care costs come down. We gain by deflating the global fossil fuel markets that drive much of the conflict around the world. — Mark Ruffalo
When they say inflation is bad, deflation is good, what they mean is, more money for us 1% is good; we're all for asset price inflation, we're all for housing prices going up, and we're all for our stock and bonds prices going up. We're just against you workers getting more income. — Michael Hudson
Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie. — Katie Couric
Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice. — Anna Godbersen
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. — Thomas Jefferson
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. — Paul Goodman
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. — Roland Barthes
In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation. — Robert Kiyosaki
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