For a long time the New York Stock Exchange looked with suspicion on the investment trusts; only in 1929 was fisting permitted. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The basic speculative impulse, which is to believe whatever best serves the good fortune you are experiencing.

Broadly speaking, [Keynesianism means] that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.