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Against Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained…
- The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks…
- When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then…
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