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

In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.

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

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?

Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.

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

Credit is money of the mind.

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

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.

The Fed can change how things look, not how things are

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