“ Had Volcker never pushed through his radical change in policy, the world would be many bond traders and one memoir the poorer. Michael Lewis
“ Before Volcker’s speech, bonds had been conservative investments, into which investors put their savings when they didn’t fancy a gamble in the stock market. After Volcker’s speech, bonds became objec… Michael Lewis
“ Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money qu… Carl Menger
“ Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. James A. Garfield President of the United States
“ I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel. Jay Leno
“ It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. Ron Paul
“ Sneaky and underhanded, the Federal Reserve has been sucking the life blood out of the United States since 1913. Like a black widow spider, it weaves a web of corruption and deceit. Unknown to its pre… Jim McCarthy
“ For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it. Ron Paul
