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Quotes from World Commodities and World Currencies — Benjamin Graham

1894–1976 United States

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It guarantees unfailing purchasing power where it is most needed-among the countless producers of raw commodities.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.

World Commodities and World Currencies (1944)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benjamin Graham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.