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Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know…
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We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels…
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However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is…
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The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
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The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't…
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People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to…
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Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side…
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Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is…
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I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough…
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In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the…
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Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group…
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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run…
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Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
— Lewis Black
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good…
— Linus Pauling
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Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.
— Joshua Schachter
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Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent…
— Lyle Lovett
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I've seen people that are extremely brilliant and they don't have the staying power. They don’t have that never give up quality.…
— Donald Trump
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The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and…
— Bill Maher
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I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures,…
— Luke Johnson
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The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system,…
— Lewis Black
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All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously…
— Seth Godin
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You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.
— John McTiernan
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Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.
— George Weigel
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