A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

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

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.