Economics Is Haunted By More

In A Free Enterprise System, With An Honest And Stable Money, There Is Dominantly A Close Link Between Effort And Productivity, On The One Hand, And Economic Reward On The Other. Inflation Severs This Link. Reward Comes To Depend Less And Less On Effort And Production, And More And More On Successful Gambling And Luck.

Prolonged Inflation Never 'stimulates' The Economy. On The Contrary, It Unbalances, Disrupts, And Misdirects Production And Employment.

When The Government Makes Loans Or Subsidies To Business, What It Does Is To Tax Successful Private Business In Order To Support Unsuccessful Private Business.

If A Government Resorts To Inflation, That Is, Creates Money In Order To Cover Its Budget Deficits Or Expands Credit In Order To Stimulate Business, Then No Power On Earth, No Gimmick, Device, Trick Or Even Indexation Can Prevent Its Economic Consequences.

The Ideas Which Now Pass For Brilliant Innovations And Advances Are In Fact Mere Revivals Of Ancient Errors, And A Further Proof Of The Dictum That Those Who Are Ignorant Of The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It.