Steve Forbes Quotes

Under the guise of fighting inflation, COLA actually creates it.

Americans have seen the value of the dollar slowly decline due to the steady erosion of inflation.

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

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

Inflation is everywhere and anywhere a monetary phenomenon.

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

Nothing so weakens governments as persistent inflation.

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

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.

When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

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

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

All inflationary processes in history are related to political and moral crises.

Having a little inflation is like being a little bit pregnant.

The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

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.

I feel very uncomfortable with respect to looking at inflation.

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.

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.