Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in extra revenue. …

- Amity Shlaes

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americ…

- Amity Shlaes

In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same wa…

- Amity Shlaes

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfo…

- Amity Shlaes

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with.

- Amity Shlaes

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government bud…

- Amity Shlaes

Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects history and history…

- Amity Shlaes

To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one gre…

- Amity Shlaes

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of …

- Amity Shlaes