Burden Quote by Benjamin Graham

Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call…

— Sandra Postel

It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.

— Ha-Joon Chang

Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for…

— Timothy Egan

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a…

— Milton Friedman

... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of…

— William Vickrey

Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?

— Eugene Mirman

The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such…

— Benjamin Graham

Though dams and artificial lakes can have significant negative environmental impacts, when carefully considered, mitigated, and managed, the benefits of hydropower often outweigh these…

— Seth Moulton

Never forget that no government has wealth of its own to spend. The money has to come from taxation, monetary inflation, or debt expansion…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as…

— Milton Friedman

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

— William Vickrey

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold…

— Robert Heilbroner