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 t… - John Kenneth Galbraith

The second factor contributing to speculative euphoria and programmed collapse is the specious association of money and intelligence.

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.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. - Friedrich Von Schiller, as quoted by Bernard Baruch

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.