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 eats away at ties that bind us together as a people.
Businesses across the country are raising their prices in order to compensate for their added costs due to Obama's health care plan. If they aren't raising prices, they're cutting jobs as a result of the added cost, both of which hurt our economy.
Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil.
A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.
Policies aimed at reversing globalization will lead only to a decrease in real income as goods become more expensive.
There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.
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.
The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.
I feel very uncomfortable with respect to looking at inflation.
In the ten years leading up to 2013, quinoa prices nearly tripled on the back of skyrocketing international demand for the latest 'superfood'. The grain had traditionally been cultivated in the high Andean plateau, principally for household consumption. But as prices rose, farmers' incentive to sell it as a cash crop grew.
Yes, prices go up in health care. They have been doing so for 80 straight years.
No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.
When we say Bharat Vijay Rally, we intend to focus on making India emerge victorious over price rise, corruption, unemployment and mis-governance.
It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.
If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors.
House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.
Nothing so weakens governments as persistent inflation.
What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.
I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.
Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.
Since 2000, we've seen base power rates rise by 50%.
Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges
