Best Deflation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's deflation of our value, devaluation through a system of paper trails created for deeper entanglement by inflating our minds with lies. It sickens me to my stomach but what more can I do? Only spread the message of Jehovah and His Son like the flu. I've been given the key of knowledge, it's true.”

Slavery Currency Good News Inflation Jehovah Deflation Entangled

Book:The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

“However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.”

Should Interest Policy Perception Rate Bounds Spite Zero Monetary Interest Rate Central Banks Avert Monetary Policy Deflation

Author:Toshihiko Fukui

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

Way Purpose Wind Inflation Deflation

Author:William McChesney Martin

“To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.”

People Faces Accepting Reacting Deflation

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.”

Knows Inspiration Focus Yeah Defense Horizon Distraction Phases Foreground Deflation

Author:Ani DiFranco

“See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.”

Plans Fortune Disappointment Inflation Good Fortune Deflation

Author:Jean Cocteau

“A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.”

Littles Mines Ego Now And Then Humiliation Apprentice Deflation

Book:The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

“Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation." "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.”

“The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which preceded the War. ... The only thing that will save us is a new gold policy or the discovery of a new process or additional gold fields. If the fall [of gold production] is not prevented by design or accident we shall throttle business, wringing out all profits and experiencing all the evils of deflation.”

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Author:Irving Fisher

“No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that every inflation has been accompanied by a rapid increase in the quantity of money and every deflation by a decline in the quantity of money.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“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.”

Jobs America Growth Economy Focus Effects Foundation Dollars Convinced Strongest Inflation Purchasing Guarding Solid Foundation Purchasing Power Deflation Job Growth

Author:Kevin Brady

“The Fed is pushing a variety of workarounds that would inject trillions in new money into the economy while bypassing the banking system altogether. Time will tell whether or not this will succeed. Meanwhile, a serious danger lurks around the corner. Once the recession is over, the lending will start again. With fractional-reserve banking and limitless supplies of cash on hand, we will likely see the overall price trends reversed, from deflation to inflation to possible hyperinflation.”

“You can't rule out deflation just because you've never seen it in your lifetime.”

Lifetime Deflation

Author:Greg Mankiw

“The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.”

Ifs Years Ends Decades Globalization Unfolding Deflation

Author:John L. Casti

“There are two definitions of deflation. Most people think of it simply as prices going down. But debt deflation is what happens when people have to spend more and more of their income to carry the debts that they've run up - to pay their mortgage debt, to pay the credit card debt, to pay student loans.”

People Thinking Two Happens Running Pay Students Definitions Credit Debt Income Cards Loan Mortgage Credit Card Student Loan Deflation Credit Card Debt

Author:Michael Hudson

“Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance and real estate. These transfer payments leave less and less of the paycheck to be spent on goods and services, so markets shrink.”

Real Pay Fire Flow Finance Goods Estates Shrinks Payment Transfers Paychecks Goods And Services Deflation Leakage

Author:Michael Hudson

“Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.”

Writing Economy Willing Debt Steady Drains Shrinking Purchasing Purchasing Power Deflation

Author:Michael Hudson

“When they say inflation is bad, deflation is good, what they mean is, more money for us 1% is good; we're all for asset price inflation, we're all for housing prices going up, and we're all for our stock and bonds prices going up. We're just against you workers getting more income.”

Mean Workers Income Assets More Money Inflation Housing Deflation

Author:Michael Hudson

“When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the 99% in debt are getting all the growth in wealth and income. Deflation means that income is being transferred to the 1%, that is, to the creditors and property owners.”

People Mean Growth Wealth Property Debt Income Owners Shrinking Creditors Deflation

Author:Michael Hudson

“Debt deflation is when there's less money that people have to spend out of their paychecks on goods and services, because they're paying the FIRE sector. Oil going down is a function of the supply and demand of oil in the market. It's a separate phenomenon.”

People Fire Demand Function Debt Oil Goods Phenomenon Paychecks Goods And Services Supply And Demand Deflation

Author:Michael Hudson

“More and more money is being extracted from of the production and consumption economy to pay the FIRE sector. That's what causes debt deflation and shrinks markets. If you pay the banks, you have less to spend on goods and services.”

Ifs Causes Pay Economy Fire Productions Debt Goods More Money Consumption Shrinks Goods And Services Deflation

Author:Michael Hudson

“I've learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit. Knowing that now, in the future we will certainly inflate the footballs above that low level to account for any possible change during the game.”

Games Levels Situation Knowing Football Limits Lows Accounts Range I've Learned Pounds Inflation Low Level Specifications Deflation Possible Change

Author:Bill Belichick

“People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But this time we can't revive. The reason is that every recovery since 1945 has begun with a higher, and higher level of debt. The debt is so high now, that since 2008 we've been in what I call, debt deflation.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF basically is implying (and it was explicit regarding Greece), but its not spelling it out, because that's not what can be said in polite company.”

Way Writing Said Company Debt Polite Greece Explicit Spelling Implying Imf Deflation

Author:Michael Hudson

“Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.”

Thinking World Too Much Capacity Remains Conviction Despite Excess Inflation Deflation

Author:Gary Shilling

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

Real Problem Serious Opposites Inflation Real Problems Borrowers Deflation

Author:Jack Kemp

“As a whole, [changing] is deflation force that is being underestimated. Whether each person thinks of it in the context of the word deflation ... what they think of it is, "Hard to hold my margin. I'm under margin pressure. I'm under sales pressure. I'm under cost pressure."”

Thinking Persons Hard Whole Force Cost Pressure Margins Underestimated Deflation

Author:Ken Moelis

“A big secular thing going on is technology and deflation. This is where I think millennials are getting that it is an improvement in life, and they're taking advantage of it.”

Thinking Bigs Technology Advantage Improvement Secular Millennials Taking Advantage Deflation

Author:Ken Moelis

“In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit

“The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.”

“The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.”

Order Sides Cases Economy Cutting Mystery Effects Source Demand Economics Bases Spending Producers Finance Collapse Severe Ongoing Buyers Side Effects Deflation

Author:Ben Bernanke

“This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.”

“If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.”

Ifs Inflation Genies Deflation

Author:Christine Lagarde

“Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.”

Needs Sometimes Problem Serious Threat Dear Inflation Orthodoxy Deflation

Author:Gavyn Davies

“Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.”

Firsts Care Sky Depression First Time Faults Don't Care I Don't Care Our Future Unemployment Great Depression Deflation Whose Fault It Is

Author:John Mellencamp

“Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.”

Inspiring Risk Economic Our Time Secular Stagnation Deflation

Author:Lawrence Summers

“With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.”

Way Used Process Labor Clever Stealing Assets Collapse Unemployment Inflation Printing Monetary Facilitate Very Clever Deflation Printing Money

Author:Catherine Austin Fitts

“For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.”

World Years Lasts Europe China Consumers Resorts Recessions Deflation

Author:Evan Davis

“Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.”

Heart Race Visible Chests Inflation Rapids Deflation

Author:Anna Godbersen

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