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“By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some....There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to
debauch the currency.
The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which
not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
”
(
John Maynard Keynes
,
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
, 1919.)
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