As a result people hoarded money by consuming less.
Stories that people were starving because of shortages and hoarding seem exaggerated, at least in the capital.
When the interest rate gets very low, this incentive disappears, and people just hoard cash instead.
A grasp of human nature that you people are now hoarding for yourselves.
The little food that people have hoarded is shared around ever more mouths.
As for food, people are hoarding all sorts of goods when opportunities arise.
Those days, people hoarded coins in bad times and small change became hard to find.
On the news I saw how some rich people were hoarding a lot of dollars in their homes when the country didn't have any.
But what if the excess demand is for money, because people are hoarding it?
James wrote that people would hoard wealth in the end times to their destruction.