04 August 2009

Paper Money

Daniel Webster said,
We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

Of all contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
and quantitative easing.

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