Peter Schiff Quotes
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.
Schiff, Peter. Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
What the Prime Minister was trying to say is that the buying power had not been diminished suddenly for local and non-imported items.
While devaluation may have been intended to have the effect of stimulating exports and inhibiting imports, many countries have populations which feel “cheapened” by the process—that they are worth less as laborers and their raw materials are valued less in the eyes of the world.
Peter David Schiff is an American stock broker, financial commentator, and radio personality. He is CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a broker-dealer based in Westport, Connecticut. He is also involved in various roles in other financial services companies, including Euro Pacific Asset Management, an independent investment advisor, Schiff Gold (formerly Euro Pacific Precious Metals), a precious metals dealer, and Euro Pacific Bank, a full-reserve bank.