In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today. Votes: 2
Like having your own licence to print money. Votes: 1
You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet. Votes: 1
When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money. Votes: 1
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default. Votes: 1
If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war. Votes: 1
All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities. Votes: 1
Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ. Votes: 1
One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off. Votes: 1
We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us. Votes: 1
When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely. Votes: 1
When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker. Votes: 1
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. Votes: 1
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. Votes: 1
I am pretty sure central banks will continue to print money, and the standards of living for people in the western world, not just in America, will continue to decline because the cost of living increases will exceed income. The cost of living will also go up because all kinds of taxes will increase. Votes: 1
Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider that their own policies, which put the entire burden on central bankers to print money and drive up stock, bond and other asset prices, are actually exacerbating income and wealth disparity. Votes: 1
Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money. Votes: 0
Like having your own licence to print money. Votes: 0
Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests. Votes: 0
I don't get why the government is the only one that gets to print money. Votes: 0
I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money. Votes: 0
It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes. Votes: 0
I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot. Votes: 0
Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that. Votes: 0
I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it? Votes: 0
You [ the American President] can print more money, you just print and pay. I mean, it's a bad option, but you can do it. Votes: 0
Why does the UN need to raise money for ebola? Can't the gov just print the damn dollars themselves and get this done already. Votes: 0
Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money. Votes: 0
You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable. Votes: 0
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book. Votes: 0
I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money. Votes: 0
The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits. Votes: 0
If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.
By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in their own currency never default, because they can always print money. Their currency may depreciate, but the risk of default is absent.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Votes: 5 Benjamin Franklin
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Votes: 3 Pete Seeger