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I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.
I always thought that using more efficient energy sources, pushing the clean energy technologies such as renewable energies are important.
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.
It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.
We have put in place policies through supervision and regulation that has greatly enhanced the safety and soundness of the banking system.
We're charged by Congress with regulating financial institutions. We take that mission seriously. We are tough supervisors and regulators.
The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand.
I'm writing from New Zealand - a country that decided from the beginning that the War was wrong, and chose not to participate in Iraq War.
According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous.
The wealth in many large estates has never been taxed because it is largely in the form of unrealized - therefore untaxed - capital gains.
Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.
People might just decide, 'Yeah, I'll diversify my portfolio. I'll live in a rental.' That is a very sensible thing for many people to do.
We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.
If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
A lot of technological capital has to be absorbed person-to-person, and that happens more quickly if countries are economically integrated.
Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.
Energy is a linchpin of economic prosperity, with energy security, reliability, and affordability key preconditions for sustainable growth.
Expanded credit access has helped households maintain living standards when suffering job loss, illness, or other unexpected contingencies.
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.
Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms.
The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq among black people.
I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.
Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.
Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.
A well-run city lets millions of people come together and enjoy the benefit they can get from working together and trading with each other.
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.
It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.
You have to be looking for a job to get unemployment benefits. If you stop looking for work, you are no longer eligible to receive benefits.
Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.
The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses.
The public hasn't learned that businesses don't pay taxes: only people do. They're confused, and this makes an adviser's job all the harder.