In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
John Kenneth GalbraithAccording to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years, including recurrent speculative episodes. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that we're now having another one of those speculative episodes.
John Kenneth GalbraithMr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy โ what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
John Kenneth Galbraith