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Paul Samuelson quotes: For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?

For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?

Paul Samuelson quotes: A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Economists have much to be humble about.

Economists have much to be humble about.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

Paul Samuelson quotes: The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.

Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

Paul Samuelson quotes: An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

Paul Samuelson quotes: What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas

Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas

Paul Samuelson quotes: We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

Paul Samuelson quotes: I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information. is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information. is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

Paul Samuelson quotes: It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

Paul Samuelson quotes: You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

Paul Samuelson quotes: The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

Paul Samuelson quotes: I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks

I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks

Paul Samuelson quotes: Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Man does not live by GNP alone.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

Paul Samuelson quotes: It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

Paul Samuelson quotes: But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of

But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

Paul Samuelson quotes: Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.