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The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

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It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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Decline Investing Should
The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
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Imperfection Men People
The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.
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Engineering Essence Philosophy
Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.
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Investing Investment Thinking
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.
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Investing Past Wall
To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.
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Average Sound Wall
The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.
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Analysis Determine Investing Issues Valuation
Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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Arguments Gold Use White
The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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Interest Lying Market Timing
In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
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Emotional Forever Investing
In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.
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Ducks Intelligent Investing
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.
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Adoption Book Purpose
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
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Investing Principles Safety
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
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Egypt Seems Seven Simple Thinking Year
An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
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Business Investing Investors Values
Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
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Achievement Forever Growth

The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

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The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

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