Pessimistic Visions About Almost Anything

Gentlemen, A Depression Is For Capitalism Like A Good, Cold Douche.

Capitalism Stands Its Trial Before Judges Who Have The Sentence Of Death In Their Pockets. They Are Going To Pass It, Whatever The Defense They May Hear; The Only Success Victorious Defense Can Possibly Produce Is A Change In The Indictment.

The Success Of Everything Depends On Intuition, The Capacity Of Seeing Things In A Way Which Afterwards Proves To Be True, Even Though It Cannot Be Established At The Moment, And Of Grasping The Essential Fact, Discarding The Unessential, Even Though One Can Give No Account Of The Principles By Which This Is Done.

Can Capitalism Survive? No. I Do Not Think It Can.

All We Can Thus Far Say About The Duration Of The Units Of [the Business Cycle] And Each Of [its] Two Phases Is That It Will Depend On The Nature Of The Particular Innovations That Carry A Cycle,... And The Financial Conditions And Habits Prevailing In The Business Community In Each Case.