The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-… - John Kenneth Galbraith

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

Scholars gather in scholarly assemblages to hear in elegant statement what all have heard before. Again, it is not a negligible rite, for its purpose is not to convey knowledge but to beatify learning and the learned.

Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.