There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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