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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

— Yanis Varoufakis

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✓Similar Perspectives

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

— Gil Kane

We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.

— Stephen Fincher

Private jets cost a lot of money.

— Donald Trump

When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.

— Marc Faber

Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

— Robert Kiyosaki

As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.

— Craig Kilborn

Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

— Adam McKay

✗Opposing Perspectives

Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money until the colonial government of Massachusetts emitted a fiat paper issue in 1690.

— Murray Rothbard