John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Speculation

Quotes about: Speculation

• There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Awful, Common, Great Depression

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.212, Princeton University Press

• No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wall, Decision, Choices

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

• When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sea, Law, Wonderful

  "Galbraith on Crashes, Japan and Walking Sticks" by Ben Laurance and William Keegan, The Observer, June 21, 1998.

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