All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
The stock market is people.
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."