The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.
John Kenneth GalbraithAll of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.
John Kenneth GalbraithWe are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.
John Kenneth Galbraith