David Stockman Quotes

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• It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle…
• In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the…
• The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war (Japan just signed up, the Brazilians…
• Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.
• The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.
• In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a…
• I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.
• The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.
• Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion…
• Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.
• A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.
• I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The…
• Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.
• If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a…

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