In order to calculate the size of the cake which will be left for civilian consumption, we have to estimate (1) the maximum current output that we ar… - John Maynard Keynes

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily. . . . As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the sleeves of some defunct economist