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I buy the market through index funds. Since I'm getting older, I buy TIPS.
Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.
Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.
It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.
I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.
The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.
Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
The reality is that what we did in 2010 with the Dodd-Frank wasn't enough.
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.
Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.
People have used my views for purposes which are very different from mine.
The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing.
I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.
In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?
Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.
In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent
Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.
To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.
Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change
The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.
My mantra is if you want to help people accomplish some goal, make it easy.
If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.
Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.
Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.
You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.
The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.
Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.