There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.