In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings. - John Kenneth Galbraith

There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

The process by which wants are now synthesized is a potential source of economic instability. Production and therewith employment and social security are dependent on an inherently unstable process of consumer debt creation. This may one day falter.