- Blanchard, ch. 4 (pp. 65–75); ch. 14 (pp. 292–295); ch. 15 (pp. 314–319); ch. 18 (pp. 387–391); ch. 19 (pp. 423–426).
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Fedpoint #49, The Money Supply, September 2006.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
— Ernest Hemingway