Erica Jong Quotes

A stronger dollar increases U.S. dollar purchasing power.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.

When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency. So the purchasing power that we lose, somebody else gets.

The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.

If Money were given to a People in greater Quantity than there was a Demand for, Money would fall in its value; but if only given equal to the Demand, it will not fall in value.

If raising or allaying [revaluing or devaluing] the Money could add to its Value, or have any good Effect on Home or Foreign Trade; Then no Nation would want Money [from that nation.]

The Power the Magistrat [head of government] has to alter the Money in its Denomination or Fineness, takes away the chief Quality for which Silver was made Money

The currency of any country, whether it be coin or bank-notes, cannot be increased beyond the mercantile wants of that country, without producing a depreciation in the parts which compose the currency.

It does not mean of course that the pound here in Britain in your pocket has been devalued .

There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries.

The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century.

The IMF and other multilateral institutions do not appear to have prevented nations from manipulating the value of their own currencies.

Credits in your PayPal account are really just USD-backed - they are not a unique currency themselves. Other 'digital currencies,' such as Facebook Credits, can be created out of nothing and without limit, so they are not serious money.

As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.

Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

All money is a matter of belief.

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

Our system works best if the value of money stays the same.