The most profitable form of intervention in the monetary system is what is known today as “monetary policy”—more accurately described as “legalized counterfeiting”: the ability of the government and private groups acting in concert with it to obtain for themselves, under color of law, new supplies of money without having to invest a commensurate amount of their own real resources or labor in the production of that money.
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