The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThere is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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