Inflation is the senility of democracies.
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It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.
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We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.
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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.
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Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.
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We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.
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You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.
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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.
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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.
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I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.
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It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.
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I am in the prime of senility.
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I am in the prime of my senility.
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A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
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We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.
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I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
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Old
You realise
You are
Getting old
When your
Children do
Things better
Than you.
Life goes
Fast.
Senility
Stealthily
Cr eeps
Into you.
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Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.
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