Credit Expansion vs. Simple Inflation

Tags: Capital and Interest Theory, Interventionism, World History

06/04/2010 Ludwig von Mises

There are instances in which the methods of genuine credit expansion are used for an utterly different purpose: to allow the government to take advantage of the facilities of banking as a substitute for issuing fiat money, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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