The free lunch has still to be invented.
ALAN GREENSPANStripped 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.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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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.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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: ].
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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