Inflation

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Pascal Hügli

Negative interest rates lead to zombie firms, rampant consumerism, and growing obstacles to entrepreneurship. 

Patrick Barron

Since government creates nothing itself, all interventions are nothing more than transfers of wealth for the benefit of some and the destruction of wealth for everyone else.

Darren Brady Nelson

Demand for gold tends to increase as faith in government and government intervention in the economy declines.

Frank Shostak

All price changes have real effects on demand for goods, and therefore alter goods' prices relative to one another. For this reason changes in the money supply can't fail to affect resource allocation.

Kristoffer Mousten Hansen

Thanks to central banks, people now believe the myth that it is possible to shut down the economy and everything will be fine if we just print a lot of new money.  

Frank Shostak

The conventional view is that new money creation is no problem so long as the demand for money is increasing. The conventional view is wrong.

Alasdair Macleod

There's more saving and less spending. This would bring deflation, but there's a catch: we're making less stuff, which means more money chasing fewer goods.

Frank Shostak

Without a monopolist central bank, market forces would restrain the issuance of bank notes. But once central banks monopolize money creation, wealth is systematically transferred to the central bank and the privileged few who are favored by the state.