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One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big.
The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
An important factor influencing intergenerational mobility and trends in inequality over time is economic opportunity.
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.
I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.
The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.
The OECD should promote everything that's consistent with its mandate, which is to make the world economy work better.
Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.
Trump assumed office promising to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, D.C. Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper.
The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation.
Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.
Trump has the opportunity to be the president who, like Harry Truman, redirected U.S. foreign policy for a generation.
The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.
The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.
It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.
But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.
All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.
People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.
If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.
Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.
We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God!'
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.
I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?
If the President asked you to help, I don't think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn't be effective.
If Trump actually wants to help those who have been left behind, he must go beyond the ideological battles of the past.
Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.
Germany's problem, in part, is that it went into the euro at the wrong exchange rate that overvalued the deutsche mark.