Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.” ~ John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) British economistSource: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (London: Macmillan, 1936), p. 129.