"Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.“

-Carroll Quigley

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"This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation."

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