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.
ALAN GREENSPANIt 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.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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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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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.
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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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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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