All Amity Shlaes Quotes
- Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful. Anyone
- 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: 'I… Able
- In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in… Add
- There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the… Apocalypse
- Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project… Building
- Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job. Always Good
- Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies… Abilities
- 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 that… Affects
- In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not. Call
- A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found… Ago
- Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom. Believed
- Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their… Biographers
- The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy… Achieving
- The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence. Adolescence
- Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants. All
- Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote. Everybody
- The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he… Budget
- The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a song, to make… Better
- Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law… Act
- Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for… Aborting