#fiat

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

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Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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I have so much love that it could stretch around the world’s largest dick. But so what? Bernanke’s belt does that every day.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ben-bernanke #crony-capitalism #dick #federal-reserve #fiat-currency

I hired a counterfeiter the other day. I told him, “As for your salary, how much you make is really up to you.” I love a business model where the employee pays the employer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#business-model #cash #counterfeit #counterfeiter #currency

Can you break my five-dollar bill into five singles? Women love guys with lots of money.
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— Jarod Kintz

#break #cash #change #currency #dollar

The dollar isn’t worth its weight in gold, and the pound isn’t worth its weight in ounces. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dollar #fiat-currency #gold #money #change

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. ↗

— Ron Paul

#capitalism #central #central bank #cherishes #contracts

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#away #big #buying #credit #dollars

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today. ↗

— George Noory

#calculated #creating #currency #deficit #deficits

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. ↗

— Ron Paul

#federal-reserve #fiat #fiat-money #paper-money #war