“When I look at the world, I sometimes feel that here in Germany one may still be in some sort of lifeboat that can hope to keep afloat when the rest of the world goes bust. German and Switzerland and perhaps Austria and Belgium have the few relatively stable currencies in the world.”

—  Friedrich Hayek

1980s and later, Interview in Silver & Gold Report (1980)

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Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economic… 1899–1992

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