It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
ALAN GREENSPANAt the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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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.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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