Word: pollux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain prepares "retaliation measures" against the "cheapest dollar in sixty years," Pollux and I are dismayed by the mad scramble of the Nations to give their worldly goods each to the other. The dollar drops in terms of pounds, therefore pounds can buy more dollars, therefore pounds can buy more American products, therefore pounds must not be allowed to buy more American products, because more American products might choke a starving England with the necessities of life...
...between the stools of Marx and Mill, has already had occasion to discover that the capitalists will not brook serious interference in the other parts of their program. Surely they will not suffer him, or his successors, to block them in a path so clear and vital as this. POLLUX...
...administration and the farmers disagree only upon the method of raising farm prices; that farm prices ought to be raised seems eminently patent to both. But not to Pollux and myself. What is needed is not higher prices, but more and faster money. Given a limited flow of money, higher prices simply mean lower physical turnover, less industrial activity, and deeper depression. Only an increase in the flow, that is, in the velocity times the quantity of money, can produce the greater turnover of goods which alone means prosperity for farmers or for anybody else. From the specific standpoint...
...continue to become ever more and more, a vast game of touch and go punctuated by strikes and lockouts. Senator Wagner, the President, and the National Recovery Administration may achieve a temporary compromise; but let this be called by its true name, industrial regimentation, and not miscalled "industrial democracy." POLLUX...
...reasonable for us to boast, with the Tartars of old, that we have no civil law. It is true that we have no sanctioned and unified administrative law; it is a tribute to the Governor's realism that he sees the infinite possibilities of administrative lawlessness which this implies. POLLUX...