cheops
- n Egyptian Pharaoh of the 27th century BC who commissioned the Great Pyramid at Giza
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- The bursting of China’s credit bubble
According to Garet Garrett in his book "A Bubble that Broke the World" Cheops employed 100,000 men for twenty years to build his great pyramid, "and all he had for 600,000,000 days of human labour was a frozen asset."
March 14, 2014 - GoldSeek.com
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- Antonin Scalia in UPI.com
Today's judgment converts Miranda from a milestone of judicial overreaching into the very Cheops Pyramid (or perhaps the Sphinx would be a better analogue) of judicial arrogance,Scalia said. - Ludwig von Mises in The Market Oracle
As Ludwig von Mises wrote, "The attempts to determine in money the wealth of a nation or of the whole of mankind are as childish as the mystic efforts to solve the riddles of the universe by worrying about the dimensions of the pyramid of Cheops." - Herodotus in Washington Post
Herodotus wrote: "Cheops reigned, the Egyptians said, fifty years, and was succeeded at his demise by Chephren, his brother. Chephren imitated the conduct of his predecessor, and, like him, built a pyramid, which did not, however, equal the...