Rick Santelli Quotes

You will never solve the American problems just by printing money.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

We have lost control over the financial system ... by printing much more money than in previous years.

When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

I am pretty sure central banks will continue to print money, and the standards of living for people in the western world, not just in America, will continue to decline because the cost of living increases will exceed income. The cost of living will also go up because all kinds of taxes will increase.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed.

We would treat him pretty ugly down here in Texas. Printing more money is in my opinion, treason.

A paper monetary standard means there are no restraints on the printing press or on federal deficits.

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

Our government is printing money, and it's degrading the living standard of every person in America. It's the cause of frustration, anger, and confusion.

Forget quantitative easing - I've always thought the idea of injecting virtual money into the system is an accident waiting to happen.

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

We could, of course, always make the payments, simply by printing more money - we simply promise to pay people by giving them dollar bills - but that could set off inflation.

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

It's pointless to talk to Fed members about economics because they are academics who believe in money-printing. Some of them believe they didn't print enough, and so with these kinds of people, it is like running to the pope. What do you want to tell them?

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Trillions of dollars are being spent in the name of 'saving' the economy: bailouts, 'stimulus,' omnibus spending bills, budgets, government takeovers of the auto, health care and energy industries, all of which require ever more spending.