The Fed is losing its fight with inflation. That’s why it’s going to try harder. But it’s going to be ineffective. If they couldn’t beat inflation with 5%, they’re not going to beat it with 5.25%.”
“We should be very careful. It’s very hard to see how you recover once you let the genie out of the bottle and people lose faith in the currency.” – Warren Buffett
“Credit collapse, although terrible, is not as terrible as hyperinflation in terms of destruction wrought upon societies.” – Paul Singer, Elliott Management
“[T]he time had come, as in all periods of speculation, when men sought not to be persuaded by the reality of things but to find excuses for escaping into the new world of fantasy.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Great Crash of 1929