Thomas Sowell Quotes

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

Thomas Sowell

• Economic
• Prosperity
• Inflation
• Desperation
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  • Prosperity
  • Inflation