It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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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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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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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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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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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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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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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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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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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 glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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