“These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.”

Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.

We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.

A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.

You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.

It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

I Tweeted Keri Hilson the other day and she actually wrote back! I was so excited.

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.

The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.

Don’t decide yet,” Hephaestus advised. “Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.