Occupation: Economist Birth: March 6, 1926
Whatever you tax you get less of..
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not..
Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this..
And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about v….
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….
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I lef….
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the market….
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unreali….
Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted..
Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial struc….
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political f….
I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anyth….
We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rule….
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law..
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for t….
The tub helps me relax, and it's a great place to read..
The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they….
[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose..
I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of prote….
The Iraq War is largely about oil..
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real..