About Quote by Amity Shlaes

Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing…

— Amity Shlaes

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

— Amity Shlaes

Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular.

— Amity Shlaes

Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal…

— Amity Shlaes

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support…

— Amity Shlaes

Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go…

— Amity Shlaes

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says:…

— Amity Shlaes

“Isn’t it a strange thing,” he asked Barton, “that in every period of social unrest men have the notion that they can pass a…

— Amity Shlaes

Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants.

— Amity Shlaes

To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor…

— Amity Shlaes

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

— Amity Shlaes

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

— Amity Shlaes