If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
- Herbert Stein - Topics: Stock Market.
There were over 379 articles written, prematurely declaring the end of Bitcoin. Not only did Bitcoin survive, it thrived, becoming the top performing asset of the decade. The naysayers were proved wrong and we learned an important lesson about human nature: most big breakthroughs are contrarian ideas that people dismiss and ridicule at the start.
- Brian Armstrong - Topics: Cryptocurrency.
It is essential to wait for trades with a good risk / reward ratio. Patience is a virtue for a trader.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Trader, Money Management.
The longer the boom of inflationary bank credit continues, the greater the scope of malinvestments in capital goods, and the greater the need for liquidation of these unsound investments. When the credit expansion stops, reverses, or even significantly slows down, the malinvestments are revealed.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Monetary Policy.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux, and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
- George Soros - Topics: Investing, Stock Market.
By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
- John Maynard Keynes - Topics: Fiat Currency.
How long can a central bank continue an inflation? Probably as long as people are convinced that the government, sooner or later, but certainly not too late, will stop printing money and thereby stop decreasing the value of each unit of money. When people no longer believe this, when they realize that the government will go on and on without any intention of stopping, then they begin to understand that prices tomorrow will be higher than they are today. Then they begin buying at any price, causing prices to go up to such heights that the monetary system breaks down.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Inflation.
Contrary to most experts, including Bernanke, the more aggressive the Fed's policies are, the worse the economy is going to be. If all that is required to revive the economy is pushing more money, then all third-world economies would be very wealthy by now.
- Frank Shostak - Topics: Monetary Policy, Inflation, Central Bank.
The two enemies of the people are criminals and Government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
- Thomas Jefferson - Topics: Government.
Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible.
- Satoshi Nakamoto - Topics: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency.
It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
- Henry Ford - Topics: Banking System, Fiat Currency.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Stock Market.
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