Robbie Coltrane Quotes

When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

Prices of every thing depend on the proportion between commodities and money, and that any considerable alteration on either has the same effect, either of heightening or lowering the price.

Blankets, that used to sell for $6, are now $25 per pair; and sheets are selling for $15 per pair, which might have been had a year ago for $4 …. Wood is selling at $16 per cord, and coal at $9 per load. How can we live here, unless our salaries are increased? The matter is under consideration by Congress, and we hope for favorable action. -

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

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.

Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'

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

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

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

Inflation is everywhere and anywhere a monetary phenomenon.

The great fear of every patriot at this moment relates to our currency. The vast over issues of paper money have raised prices to such a pitch as to make the expenses of the Government enormous.... The poor suffer from this enormous inflation of currency. Beef is 1.25 per lb—Butter $4—Eggs 3—clothing is unobtainable ... coffee is $8—sugar 3, etc. so on. Shoes cannot be had under $50 to $60 the pr. for very common ones. God only knows where all this will stop.

Inflation appears to affect the entire electorate, though in reality those able to increase their earnings at the same rate of inflation would not suffer unduly.

There is no such thing as agflation. Rising commodity prices, or increases in any prices, do not cause inflation. Inflation is what causes prices to rise. Of course, in market economies, prices for individual goods and services rise and fall based on changes in supply and demand, but it is only through inflation that prices rise in aggregate.

When the price of a drug rises, it becomes profitable and the target of new competition.

The best measure of inflation is what is happening with commodity prices.

Tariffs would mean prices going up, and customers don't want higher prices.

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

Expenditures have to keep rising to keep up with the population [growth].