Monetary Quotes

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Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were fastened upon America,… — Murray Rothbard
We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And the standard of… — Ron Paul
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Misesâ€. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action… — Ludwig von Mises
It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression. — Henry Ford
In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government… — G. Edward Griffin
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,… — John Maynard Keynes
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in… — Milton Friedman
Thanks to the central bank, most â€˜monetary expertsâ€™ and â€˜leading macro-economistsâ€™ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists â€˜explaining,â€™ like… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other… — William Stringfellow
The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing… — Naomi Klein
Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best… — Murray Rothbard
All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive… — Irwin Schiff
...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises. — Hans F. Sennholz
Money values do not simply mirror the state of affairs in the real world; valuation is a positive act that makes an impact on the… — George Soros
The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending. — Martin Wolf
I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33,… — Milton Friedman
Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent. — Paul J. Zak
Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life. — David Harvey
The monetary policies of the US will destroy the world. — Marc Faber
War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. Itâ€™s going… — Jacque Fresco

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