"All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the Constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation."
--John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson
"Is Lenin certainly right?
There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society (destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency.
The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction,
and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
-- John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
The perfect storm!
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