Tips by John Maynard Keynes
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in...
Practical men ... are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
Playing the stock market is analogous to entering a newspaper beauty-judging contest in which one must select the six prettiest faces out of a hundred...
The management of stock exchange investments is a kind of low pursuit from which it is a good thing for most members of society to be free.
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Tags: markets, irrationality
Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
Tags: currencies, economy
Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of...
Tags: speculation, capital
It is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but...