the heavy load of debt incurred in the effort to obtain and retain control during the years of financial pillage and devastation. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Contributing to and supporting this euphoria are two further factors little noted in our time or in past times. The first is the extreme brevity of the financial memory. ... The second ... is the specious association of money and intelligence.

There is the possibility, even the likelihood, of self-approving and extravagantly error-prone behavior on the part of those closely associated with money.