It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.
Ludwig von MisesThe development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.
Ludwig von MisesDepressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
Ludwig von MisesThe gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
Ludwig von Mises