“Thus those reformers, who look for a remedy by creating artificial carrying-costs for the money through the device of requiring legal-tender currency to be periodically stamped at a prescribed cost in order to retain its quality as money, or in analogous ways, have been on the right track; and the practical value of their proposals deserves consideration.” WayLooksHas BeensValuesOrderQualityCostCreatingDeserveTrackPracticalsConsiderationDevicesArtificialRemedyCurrencyProposalReformersRight Track Author:John Maynard Keynes
“Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.” TodayValuesSocialGrowingSecurityCreatingAccountsStressTradeObligationCurrencySocial SecurityDeficitMedicaid Author:George Noory
“If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.” IfsGivingArtBookIdeasFormCreatingSellingYieldCurrencyLecturesCreating SomethingSelling Books Author:Shepard Fairey
“The economic union - creating a big common market, like the United States, so that you can compete across borders. There are common rules, regulations, and simplification, and that is still a good reason, too. When they put their monetary union together, that created a rigidity that made it hard for currency fluctuations. They don't really have a solution to that.” MadeStillsHardStatesReasonBigsTogetherUnitedCommonUnited StatesEconomicCreatingSolutionsUnionsMade ItBordersRegulationCurrencyMonetaryRigiditySimplificationFluctuation Author:Jamie Dimon
“Britain is not part of the single currency. That is a decision we have taken, a voluntary decision of this country, but as a result are part of a European Union 19 of whose members are rapidly integrating, creating political, fiscal, monetary, economic union to make their currency work. And that is increasingly rubbing up against the operation.” CountryPoliticalDecisionResultsTakenEconomicMembersCreatingUnionsOperationsBritainCurrencyEuropean UnionMonetaryIntegrating Author:George Osborne
“Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward experience, then make decisions based on creating biological wealth that includes all people, animals, cultures, currencies, languages, and the living things as yet undiscovered; listen to the truth the land will tell you; act accordingly.” PeopleFirstsCultureLanguageWealthDecisionAnimalLandDisciplineBehaviorCreatingSeasonsDestructiveLove LifeMarchGatesTendernessCurrencyLiving ThingsDestructive Behavior Book:The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold Source: The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold