Now that they have succeeded in controlling cost inflation, this idea of privatizing Medicare opens up a whole new market.

It may be a year and a half or so before we see enough inflation for the Fed to start digging in.

Year after year, as drug prices rise much faster than inflation, more and more seniors are forced to go without much-needed medications. The millions of low-income seniors, who subsist on Social Security checks that rise...

I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent.

Seattle has not adjusted the tax threshold since 1994, … The raised threshold offsets the effect of inflation since that time.

Inflation springs from how intensely resources are used. There is an enormous amount of unused capacity sitting out there, and it takes a lot of growth to absorb that.

The pay is now going up about 3.5, 3.7 percent a year, more than the rate of inflation, and that’s built into the five-year plan. So pay is improving.

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

On a year-over-year basis, the inflation figures are not anything to be concerned about.

The Fed views potential inflation as last year’s problem. This year, they will be focused on promoting a rebound in growth.

With consumer price inflation below the 2% target level in both December and January and clearly below the levels forecast by the Bank of England in their November quarterly inflation report, a near-term interest rate...

Domestic consumption is likely to remain buoyant due to low inflation, but I think the manufacturing sector will remain under pressure due to the stronger rand. Strong metal prices are expected to propel the economy...

The core PCE price index is a calming influence on the bond market, … Inflation so far has far not gotten out of hand.

The BOJ may be ready to raise rates once they see inflation hitting 1 percent or, if it were to be more forward-looking, even earlier. It could start raising rates as early as in July.

The fundamentals are still there. We have low inflation, low interest rates and a worldwide demand for American products I don’t think you have a problem as far as the market going up.

The prospects for a rate cut have certainly increased. You have weaker inflation and in addition there are risks to gross domestic product growth.

We believe the rate has peaked already. Bank Indonesia will want to make sure that inflation is on a definite down-trend before they cut.

Inflation is still above target and as long as the economic data keeps coming in strong we expect the ECB will raise rates.

These figures should relieve some of the fears of Fed officials who have been recently sounding the alarm on inflation prospects.

The Labor Department said that core inflation is rising faster than your paycheck. Through the first three months of this year overall inflation is up by 4.3%, last year the rate was 3.4%. Energy prices...

The Reserve Bank will continue to monitor higher short-term inflation risks from oil against slowing economic activity. While the bank might engage in occasional bouts of jawboning, we see little prospect of rates moving in...

For just over my price range, I can get something way under my quality expectation level. Thanks, inflation!

Central banks having lived through that era where inflation went up … are not inclined to make excuses if inflation goes up [again].

For the Fed, productivity is the antidote to inflation, and that’s still very strong. It’s inconceivable that the Fed would tighten in four out of its next five meetings.

Discussion at the meeting is likely to have been heavily influenced by the forthcoming inflation report.

Because countries trying to join the European Union have been forced to get their fiscal policies in order, inflation is now less of a concern for investors.

Despite the discouraging headline that CPI inflation rose, there was actually more to be encouraged than discouraged about in this report, … Since it is already known that gasoline has dropped sharply in October, that...

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

Suddenly these inflation figures have a psychological impact.

Some foreign investors will be bullish about the move but some others will possibly be wary of riots. Inflation will be a negative side effect.

Stocks suffered today as concerns about inflation, higher oil prices, earnings and a new hurricane mounted. The outlook is a bit uncertain, and uncertainty is never good for stocks.

Over the past year, core intermediate goods inflation has been nearly 5 percentage points higher than core finished goods inflation. This is one of the largest gaps ever, and reinforces our expectation that a part...

The market still has a long way to go and if the market starts realizing that inflation is closer to 2 percent and not 3 percent, that could easily take [the Dow] over 10,000 in...

I look like a million bucks, but I feel like shit. Thanks, inflation!

The current inflation story is a little different story than the type of inflation story you had thirty years ago.

There’s only so much a Fed rate hike can do to thwart an inflation threat that’s predominantly driven by oil prices. Raising the fed funds rate won’t stop people from speculating about higher oil prices,

The trajectory that emerges from this forecast is one in which inflation is temporarily high in the current quarter but quickly approaches the current estimate of long-run inflation of 2.5 percent.

I’m hopeful that we’re nearing the end of this series of tightening. I don’t think we have a serious inflation problem. With strong productivity, unit labor costs are under control.

You have the legs and other also have it; they have the brain and you have it! Stop thinking you can’t transact the business that others can. If you do, you are raising your inflation...

There are some fears about inflation but people are even more concerned about what’s happening in the corporate credit market.

Today’s report was a case of familiar culprits — apparel prices continue to put downward pressure on inflation, and housing and medical care continue to put upward pressure on inflation.

Rising inflation will exacerbate pressure on the central bank to raise interest rate again. The tightening policy will persist as the central bank tries to reverse the negative real rate.

Over the last 20 years, prices have fallen, when you taken into account inflation, by about a third, and travel has doubled. We also expect to be moving somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion...

The market is responding very directly to interest rates as kind of a one-dimensional thing — fearful of inflation and I think that either higher rates may catch this market in 1997, or the flip...

Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand. But in terms of the actual production and exchange of real...

Getting back to inflation, it is important to note that the producer price Index does not reflect wage pressures — and that is where the inflation threat really lies.

Can the market hold on to those gains [this] week? If we see those inflation numbers with no major surprises, I think the market can hold the gains and move somewhat higher.

If your salary is not being raised for inflation each year, you are really being penalized.

There remains a lingering risk of higher interest rates should signs of stronger employment and inflation emerge in coming months.

Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that’s going to be a big positive.