Ayn Rand
On Paper Money
"Whenever destroyers appear, they start by destroying money, for money is protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'"
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