Barack Obama

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

American President

Joseph Stiglitz

One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine.

American Economist

Raghuram Rajan

I will say this: the central banks can actually support growth beyond a point. When there is no inflation, they can cut interest rates, and that is the way they support growth, but if you cut interest rate to the bone, there is nothing more to cut. It is very hard to support growth beyond that.

Indian Economist

W. Edwards Deming

Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.

American Scientist

Porter Stansberry

It's not hard to generate a paper fortune in a huge inflation. All you have to do is own the most important economic assets: energy, communication, and transportation.

American Publisher

Janet Yellen

A crucial responsibility of any central bank is to control inflation, the average rate of increase in the prices of a broad group of goods and services.

American Public Servant

Thomas Sowell

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.

Gita Gopinath

If people expect high inflation and raise wages to reflect the high inflation, then it becomes self-fulfilling.

Arthur Laffer

I feel very uncomfortable with respect to looking at inflation.

Maxine Peake

Pay in the acting world hasn't kept up with inflation.

English Actress

Inflation is often used as an economic indicator to gauge a country's economic health.

Economic Indicator

While inflation reduces purchasing power, moderate inflation is normal and can signal a growing economy.

Not Always Negative

Central banks manage inflation by adjusting monetary policies such as interest rates.

Central Bank Role

Inflation in this context means physically adding air or gas into something to expand it.

Physical Action

Objects can be inflated with substances other than air, like helium in balloons.

Not Just Air

Inflation is a key concept in cosmology related to how the universe began and expanded.

Astronomy Relevance

When discussing the universe, inflation is much grander than anything we experience on Earth.

Beyond Earth

 and now you need a PhD for the other. It's a process of academic inflation. And it indicates the whole structure of education is shifting beneath our feet. We need to radically rethink our view of intelligence. We know three things about intelligence. One, it's diverse. We think about the world in all the ways that we experience it.

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 hundred percent or more in most countries today is 32 percent which is better than what you have in the US and Europe and most other places thanks to the good work that was done and forgiven Africa's debt in the early in the 2000s let's look at inflation we had an inflation rate on average on the

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 and made this law. Some people think this number's a little bit large, but copyright mathematicians who are media lobby experts are merely surprised that it doesn't get compounded for inflation every year. Now when this law first passed, the world's hottest MP3 player could hold just 10 songs.

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 that relates quantum fluctuations in the energy of the early universe, to the formation of clumps of gas that eventually led to galaxies. If we accept this paradigm, it may also imply our universe represents one region in a greater cosmic reality that undergoes endless, eternal inflation.

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 It began to expand about a million, billion, billion, billion billionth of a second -- I think I got that right -- after the Big Bang. Gravity separated away from the other forces. The universe then underwent an exponential expansion called inflation.

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 making you want to spend it right away. While this would stimulate business, it would also encourage overconsumption, or hoarding commodities, like food and fuel, raising their prices and leading to consumer shortages and even more inflation.

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 Inflation happens when goods and services get more expensive. Put another way, the value of money decreases. Still, inflation isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In fact, a low inflation rate is thought to encourage economic activity.

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 out of sheer nothingness, no space, no time, no matter, nothing, a little nugget of false vacuum can fluctuate into existence, and then, by the miracle of inflation, blow up into this huge and variegated cosmos we see around us.

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 mayor Bradley signed the water conservation measure today looks none too good in fact they keep saying that the recession is the only thing pulling us out of inflation to several degrees

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 known as inflation there were ripples in the ocean as inflation ended the ocean of energy was converted into mata and the big bang