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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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 find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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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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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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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 expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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