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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required
to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people’s savings on a scale comparable to the
plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.
|  By: |  Ayn Rand (more quotes by Ayn Rand or books by/about Ayn Rand) | 
|  |  [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter | 
|  Source: |  Who Will Protect Us From Our Protectors?, The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1952. | 
|  Categories: |  Economics, Inflation, Money | 
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