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Richard Nixon: “You can spend your way into inflation, but you sure can't spend your way out of inflation.”

On the recordApril 29, 1974
You can spend your way into inflation, but you sure can't spend your way out of inflation.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

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