True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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