Complementary Quote by Bernard Lietaer

Complementary currencies work in addition to existing money, rather than replacing existing, official money. There are whole different families of complementary currencies. One of…

— Bernard Lietaer

“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work,” Satoshi wrote. “The central bank must be trusted…

— Nathaniel Popper

We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That means that…

— Ron Paul

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they…

— Murray Rothbard

One of the fairly interesting things about money is that it makes certain things possible that wouldn't be possible otherwise - it doesn't make…

— David Graeber

Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for…

— Murray Rothbard

The fiat-based system has produced enormous global imbalances that are straining the global economy. Ultimately, I think the whole thing gives way and what…

— Peter Schiff

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

— Vandana Shiva

It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are…

— Murray Rothbard

...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about…

— Jerry Fodor

There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

— David Suzuki