Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIf farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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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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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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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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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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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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