It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThis long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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