Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESInvesting is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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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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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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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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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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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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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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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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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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