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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?

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

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

Economists have much to be humble about.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Man does not live by GNP alone.

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

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.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

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.

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