It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity.
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Instead, dollar debasement repels capital and over time, raises prices inflicting a penurious tax on producers.
It is this expectation of global paper currency debasement which makes gold an attractive long-term investment.
This is a surefire recipe for currency debasement, which will breed political and social instability.
The debasement of lending standards for the subprime market soon spread throughout the mortgage markets.
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The final stage of this intergenerational theft will be the debasement of our currency.
Devaluationist policies make this difficult because monetary debasement eventually weakens exporter and importer alike.
It is this expectation of paper currency debasement which makes gold an attractive long-term investment for us.
Simultaneously, Brazil has to deal with appreciative pressure on its currency as a consequence of dollar debasement.
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He has posted rantings online about the government's attempts at mind control and the debasement of the dollar.
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With negative real interest rates, worldwide currency debasement, and inflation being the real threat ultimately, gold still remains attractive.
And as often as economic prognosticators prescribe currency debasement as some miraculous panacea, her question is a good one.
Sadly, dollar debasement has masked a more hidden truth about the health of ostensibly stronger currencies--and the global economy.
The policies in favor of currency debasement are the most harmful of all.
They presided over levels of inflation that were seldom seen when money was backed by precious metal, debasement notwithstanding.
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The rarer the commodity, the more it will behave like real money and maintain its value during a currency debasement.
It routinely prescribes dreadful antigrowth policies, such as higher taxes and the inflation-inducing debasement of domestic currencies through big devaluations.
When money is losing value, profits and investment are necessarily distorted, given the impact of monetary debasement on certain goods.
In other words, the entire increase in the price of oil since 1999 can be attributed to the debasement of the dollar.
In addition to continued debasement of currencies by central banks around the globe, physical demand for gold remained very strong last quarter.
Debasement is a despicable ploy the government uses to rob you blind.
Traditionally this is done with currency debasement (which the Fed and the BoE have already begun) or by imposing a haircut on lenders.
Adam Smith warned us about stationary and backwards economies repelling investment, and monetary debasement leads to just that as investors essentially go on strike.
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We can be thankful that the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are resistingthe temptation to follow our currency debasement with their own.
Regarding monetary policy, Napolitano correctly sees monetary debasement as another violation of our natural rights, and to fix this, seeks a return to gold-defined money.
America's monetary pooh-bahs still can't seem to distinguish between price changes that result from supply-and-demand and those that come from traditional debasement of the currency.
Many conservatives will doubtless reply that education's debasement threatens our capitalistic, small government way of life thanks to all the "liberal" teachers, but history proves otherwise.
While the G-7 tried to legitimize the currency debasement with this statement, in reality, investors seem to be able to see through to the real motivations.
But the IMF plied its poisonous brew of budgetary austerity, higher taxes and debasement of the currency, particularly after Jean-Bertrand Aristide was restored to power in 1994.
The dollar debasement that the Federal Reserve began in 2004 and exacerbated in the aftermath of last summer's credit crisis is wreaking the havoc history told us it would.
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