Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so almost

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

War remains the decisive human failure.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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