Calculations Quote by Ludwig von Mises

Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important and the…

— Ludwig von Mises

If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate…

— Henry Hazlitt

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

— Sheldon Richman

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and…

— Thomas Woods

... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of…

— William Vickrey

We need to take away the government's money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar's soundness depends on its being…

— Ron Paul

It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough…

— Caroline Baum

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

— Donald Rumsfeld

We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be.

— Dale Jamieson

Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes…

— Pope John Paul II

You always worry about the devaluation of the dollar, but the devaluation of the dollar is based oftentimes on what the government decides to…

— Francis X. Suarez

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being…

— Paul Samuelson