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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.

John Maynard Keynes

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Conclusion Drawing Economics Mindset Technique
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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Currency Gold Government Time Trust
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Change Conclusion Information Yourself
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Crash Ourselves Time
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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Argument Balance Budget Defeat Fruit Object Strange
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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Government Introduction Speculation Transaction
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Land Reason Scarcity
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Economics Gift Order Special Study
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself
The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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Cycle Finding Permanent Remedy Right Trade
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Different Education Incompetent
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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Expensive Interest Public Stock Market
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Currency Existence Subtle Sure

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