In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.

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.

From the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but you couldn't raise a price without my permission or that of my staff.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.