Margaret Thatcher Quotes

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

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

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

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.

A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.

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

Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.

Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

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

But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

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 one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Inflation is everywhere and anywhere a monetary phenomenon.

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.

Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.

I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

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

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.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

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.