Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

If by carelessness in controlling inflation and imposing controls on our general economy we are unable to meet these temporary but vital calls upon us, we will be courting real disaster.

Whip Inflation Now

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

People forget how difficult it is to stop inflation or get it under control… I worry about it all the time.

I reject the advice of those who think the only way to fight inflation is to throw millions of people out of work .... I guarantee you that I will not fight inflation with your jobs.

There's no such thing as a painless cure for inflation.

The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

You have to change people’s minds to stop inflation.

Experience shows that high and unstable inflation can harm growth. A noninflationary macroeconomic policy is, therefore, a prerequisite for rapid development. Control of government borrowing is the crucial element in such a policy. When public borrowing is excessive, governments are soon obliged to finance it by printing money, and rising inflation then follows.

After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction.

Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.

We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.

A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.

An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

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

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

There is no left or right in economic management today.

Inflation is everywhere and anywhere a monetary phenomenon.

The economy controls the politicians far more than the politicians control the economy.

Monetary policy and fiscal policy are inseparable.

We simply cannot check inflation by keeping people out of work.

The Fed [Federal Reserve System], whether it likes it or not, is required to provide adequate reserves to the banking system in order for the government to finance its needs, even when that is inflationary.

Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing.