For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.