The spectacle of a
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. Garet Garrett
Currency
As soon as Mr.
As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars a week for 10 weeks, and created one hundred million dollars in new [checkbook] currency, which alleviated the critical famine of money and credit, and the factories started hiring people again. Eustace Mullins
The first panacea for
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. Ernest Hemingway
The currency in the
The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm. Erik Naggum
Before things are written
Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded. Erica Jong
Is a currency worth
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember? Erica Jong
The women ranged in
The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy. Erica Bauermeister
In a networked world,
In a networked world, trust is the most important currency. Eric Schmidt
The artist… may suppose
The artist… may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings. Eric Maisel
Currency speculation-over a trillion
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on day trades or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution … Read more