The chief result of this policy would be to cause a great instability of prices, so violent perhaps as to make business calculations futile in an economic society functioning after the manner of that in which we live.

该政策的主要结果将是造成价格的极大不稳定，其剧烈程度可能使商业计算在按照我们生活的方式运作的经济社会中变得徒劳无功。