Accomplished Quote by G. Edward Griffin

War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a…

— Murray Rothbard

In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however, with the…

— G. Edward Griffin

U.S. Treasury was able to save the country during the Civil War by expanding the deficit... They saved the economic well-being of the country…

— Scott Bessent

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants…

— Alan Furst

“Every dollar they saved was worth less with every financial crisis, while the government just printed more money to preserve the stock markets, the…

— Kenneth Eade

Throughout history, every government that's printed money, the money has eventually gone to its ultimate value which is zero. Remember? The confederate dollar went…

— Robert Kiyosaki

“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central banking and…

— Mark David Ledbetter

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

— Peter Schiff

Money is not something you just print. It must be backed by something, either good economy or gold.

— Mahathir Mohamad

At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

— Peter Schiff

“Printing dollars at home means higher inflation in China, higher food prices in Egypt and stock bubbles in Brazil. Printing money means that U.S.…

— James Rickards