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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 Keynes

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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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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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Believe Economics Problem Revolution Thinking World Writing
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Crime End Government Myself Work
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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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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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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