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In the short run we’re all good <br>
In the short run we’re all good <br>
In [[the long run]] we’re all dead — <br>
In [[the long run]] we’re all dead — <br>
:—''[[Danger Boy]]'', “Closer” (2019)
:—''[[Dangerboy]]'', “Closer” (2019)


“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In [[the long run]] we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.”  
“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In [[the long run]] we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.”  
:— {{author|John Maynard Keynes}}, ''A Tract on Monetary Reform'' (1923)
:— {{author|John Maynard Keynes}}, ''A Tract on Monetary Reform'' (1923)

Latest revision as of 11:34, 19 December 2019

Send in the clowns to fight for Generation Z
In the short run we’re all good
In the long run we’re all dead —

Dangerboy, “Closer” (2019)

“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.”

John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)