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There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
It is hard to have great confidence in predicting what market reactions to Fed decisions will be.
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.
People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.
American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
Nelson Mandela understood that social transformation and economic transformation go hand in hand.
Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.
To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.
Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.
Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.
Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.
Demanding that the rich get a tax cut as a condition for tax relief for others is simply elitist.
For amateur golfers, I think one of the biggest mistakes is to model their play on professionals.
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.
The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used.
Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century.
Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.
I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.
If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else.
The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.
The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.
In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.
While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro.
Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.
Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter
There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.
We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.
The real Social Security crisis is that the government does not have the money to redeem its IOUs.
I'd rather live in a world where firms don't have these enormous incentives to spy on individuals.
It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
When I hear complaints about less liquidity, remember there is such a thing as too much liquidity.
It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.