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James Grant

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

Financial

Kind

Socialism

[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.

Banking

Doubt

Firsts

Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if they can-economic growth and employment through the dubious means of suppressing interest rates and printing money. The nice thing about gold is that you can’t print it.

Mean

Money

Nice

Credit is money of the mind.

Credit

Mind

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

Borrowers

Debt

Investing

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

Creditors

Debtors

Paid

Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control a sprouting weed is well-nigh impossible. If loans are expanding too quickly, the lending officers have probably been saying ‘yes’ too frequently.

Growth

Red Flags

Weed

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

Misplaced

Recessions

I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.

Believe

Errors

Ideas

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

Investing

Money

People

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Firsts

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Growth

Hangover

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Knows

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Mean

Mind

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Nice

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Quotes by James Grant

James Grant

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.

Credit is money of the mind.

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control a sprouting weed is well-nigh impossible. If loans are expanding too quickly, the lending officers have probably been saying ‘yes’ too frequently.

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

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