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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 144
AUTHOR: Alan Greenspan (1926–)
QUOTATION: We are obviously all hurt by inflation. Everybody is hurt by inflation. If you really wanted to examine who percentage-wise is hurt the most in their incomes, it is the Wall Street brokers. I mean their incomes have gone down the most.
ATTRIBUTION: ALAN GREENSPAN, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, at a conference on inflation, Washington, D.C., September 19, 1974.—Report of the Health, Education, and Welfare, Income Security, Social Services Conference on Inflation, pp. 804–5 (1974).
SUBJECTS: Business