Lalu Prasad Yadav Quotes

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.

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 cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Inflation eats away at ties that bind us together as a people.

I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

Money costs too much.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

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.

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

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

Americans feel squeezed between prices that are rising and wages which are not.

With inflation, debts and bills fly to the sky

When you get inflation, you get massive distortions of the economy.

A rise of prices necessarily results in a diminution of the enjoyments of the laboring class until they can force the employers, through a long process of agitation, to make an increase in their wages.

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. -

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.

The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.

It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.

Nonstop taxes killed the middle class.

Gas prices and train fares seem to be the two commodities for modern British life that base their prices on a whim, or numbers plucked out of thin air, without a thought to the real cost to those for whom those price hikes mean unimaginable sacrifices in their day to day lives.

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?

The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.

Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.