"Looking back the great American ‘stabilisation’ of 1922-1929 was really a vast attempt to destabilise the value of money in terms of human effort by means of a colossal programme of investment ... which succeeded for a surprisingly long period, but which no human ingenuity could have managed to direct indefinitely on sound and balanced lines."
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