Present and Future Conditions of Credit Markets: The Impact of Federal Deficits : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session. 1981, Volume 2

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Page 159 - I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Page 159 - Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of civilised governments of the world.
Page 159 - It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.
Page 163 - States provides that the Congress shall have power — To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard' of weights and measures: To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.
Page 159 - If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without a debt.
Page 159 - Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power
Page 159 - The Government should create issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity.
Page 159 - The issuing power of money should be taken from the banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs. I sincerely believe the banking institutions havinff the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.
Page 78 - Require that all government agencies which develop fiscal, monetary, legislative and regulatory policies/practices shall submit small business, "economic impact" statements that require the regulatory agencies to identify the anticipated benefits and to justify the costs of Federal regulatory requirements to small business. In addition, all regulatory policies shall be subject to sunset provisions to be reviewed every 5 years in order to insure that only cost effective regulations shall be maintained...
Page 77 - Legislation, a National Minority Economic Commission, to provide a centralized focus to the Federal effort to assist minority business enterprise.

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