"A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event."

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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

— Friedrich Nietzsche