One Of The Worst Features Of All

The First Requisite Of A Sound Monetary System Is That It Put The Least Possible Power Over The Quantity Or Quality Of Money In The Hands Of The Politicians.

No Matter Whether It Is Their Intention Or Not, Almost Anything That The Rich Can Legally Do Tends To Help The Poor. The Spending Of The Rich Gives Employment To The Poor. But The Saving Of The Rich, And Their Investment Of These Savings In The Means Of Production, Gives Just As Much Employment, And In Addition Makes That Employment Constantly More Productive And More Highly Paid, While It Also Constantly Increases And Cheapens The Production Of Necessities And Amenities For The Masses.

The Surest Way For A Poor Nation To Stay Poor Is To Harass, Hobble, And Straitjacket Private Enterprise Or To Discourage Or Destroy It By Subsidized Government Competition, Oppressive Taxation, Or Outright Expropriation.

In Practice [monetary Management] Is Merely A High-sounding Euphemism For Continuous Currency Debasement. It Consists Of Constant Lying In Order To Support Constant Swindling. Instead Of Automatic Currencies Based On Gold, People Are Forced To Take Managed Currencies Based On Guile. Instead Of Precious Metals They Hold Paper Promises Whose Value Falls With Every Bureaucratic Whim. And They Are Suavely Assured That Only Hopelessly Antiquated Minds Dream Of Returning To Truth And Honesty And Solvency And Gold.

When Alexander The Great Visited The Philosopher Diogenes And Asked Whether He Could Do Anything For Him, Diogenes Is Said To Have Replied: ‘yes, Stand A Little Less Between Me And The Sun.’ It Is What Every Citizen Is Entitled To Ask Of His Government.