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“A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.”

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith was a renowned economist known for his research on economic cycles, market structures, and government policies. His works have had a profound impact on economic theory and policy practice. more

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Reading Force Sides Ability Study Successful Judging Investing Tape Pulling

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Source: Studies in Tape Reading

“Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.”

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“Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.”

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Book:A Short History of Financial Euphoria

Source: A Short History of Financial Euphoria

“Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.”

Should Taught Aspect Investing Reserves Disregard Federal Reserve

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“If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due.”

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Social Needed Intellectual Capitalism Climate Investing Entrepreneurship Thrive

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