It is literally true that the toleration of banks of paper discount costs the United States one-half their war taxes; or, in other words, doubles the expenses of every war. Now think but for a moment, what a change of condition that would be, which should save half our war expenses, require but half the taxes, and enthral us in debt but half the time.

Bank paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs. It is the only fund on which they can rely for loa…

The art and mystery of banks... is established on the principle that 'private debts are a public blessing.' That the evidences of those private debts, called b…

If treasury bills are emitted on a tax appropriated for their redemption in fifteen years, and (to insure preference in the first moments of competition) beari…

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Between 1999 and 2004 there was no investment in Australia, it all went into housing and consumption all borrowed on the current account. When Peter Costello r…

When national debts have once been accumulated to a certain degree, there is scarce, I believe, a single instance of their having been fairly and completely pa…