About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Hoover describes economic hardship where achieving stability is always delayed by new changes.
- In plain terms
- Just when you balance your budget someone changes the rules.
- What can you take from it?
- Economic stability is often interrupted by external shifts.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How to plan for change?
- What causes instability?
Another view
It attributes all hardship to arbitrary changes.
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