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Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.
Trump has never been clear and consistent about what he will do as president.
As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.
For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia.
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
I love creating models and coming up with explicit structures I can play with.
Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.
Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.
The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.
Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.
I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.
Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
We are all, after all, just human beings, and most of us have a lot in common.
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
It all would have been much better if individuals saved for their own old age.
You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.
I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.
We need a memorial day to commemorate the victims of neoliberal globalization.
The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.
A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.
I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty
Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year.
Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation.
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
The failure of credit markets is one of the major reasons for underdevelopment.
Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it
I've been collecting rocks since I was 8 and have over 200 different specimens.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case