Sunday, August 17, 2008

Goring Sacred Bulls

Heaven knows the EE is not Hemingway's biggest fan but this quote from Esquire, 1935 is quite apposite:

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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