Friday, July 15, 2011

Quote of the day - Keynes

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily"


-John Maynard Keynes - The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)

Lenin was right, and through the application of Keynesian "voodoo" economics we are seeing just how accurate Lenin was.

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