Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESMarkets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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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 political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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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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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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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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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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