By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe idea behind stamped money is sound.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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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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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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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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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.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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If 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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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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