“There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.”

—  John Kenneth Galbraith

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter I, Money, p. 4

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American economist and diplomat 1908–2006

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