#inflation

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. ↗

— Jack Kemp

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

— Jack Kemp

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Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

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Bring on hyperinflation! I want to be a millionaire with minimal work. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Milton Friedman

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up. ↗

— Franklin Raines

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And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have. ↗

— Kevin Brady

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Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. ↗

— James Garfield

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