Quotes About Monetary

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social breakdown of our outdated monetary and political system.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

The benefits from a world currency would be enormous.

We need to adopt a new currency. It doesn't matter what or how we call it - lira, sterling, Roman sesterce.

A national currency, with the Euro as a common currency - that wouldn't bother me.

We don't really believe there's much room for the creation of new currencies if there is no real backing for a hard and credible issuer of that currency.

In the U.S. in the 1930s during the Great Depression there were over a thousand different private currencies in circulation until the Federal Reserve found out about it and had it stopped.

Modern Monetary Theory was in some ways a re-introduction of Keynesian economics into the climate crisis.

education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

The first universal order to appear was economic: the monetary order. The second universal order was political: the imperial order. The third universal order was religious: the order of universal religions such as Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

Of course I welcome all the normalization of monetary policy. I think monetary policy should be normal.

The only way to ensure that inflation expectations remain safely anchored near the FOMC's target is to keep inflation close to that target on a consistent basis.

I have never believed that central banks should have rigid inflation targeting. That is not a good thing to stabilize. There is nothing in economic theory to back this.

Until the Fed dumps inflation targeting and the U.S. abandons its weak-dollar policy, inflation will rule the day.

He had no doubt that fluctuations in business activity could be prevented by appropriate monetary policy.

The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

La libra de moneda escocesa contenía, desde los tiempos de Alejandro I hasta los de Robert Bruce, una libra de plata del mismo peso y ley que la libra esterlina inglesa.

It's unavoidable: so long as we value money more highly than living beings and more highly than relationships, we will continue to see living beings as resources, and convert them to cash; objectifying, killing, extirpating. This is true whether we're talking about fish, fur-bearing mammals, Indians, day-laborers, and so on. If monetary value is attached to something it will be exploited until it's gone.

The university grounds are really beautiful. Universities always try that bullshit. They want you to think wonderful things are going on inside of them because the grounds are beautiful. In general, it is good to be suspicious of monetary displays. Large swaths of bright green well-watered grass—a thing like that is a huge lie.