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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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Popular Enron quotes from across the collection:
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You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.
— Lewis Black
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Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a…
— Warren G. Bennis
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I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I…
— Kenneth Lay
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Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit…
— Elaine Chao
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Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.
— Paul Begala
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I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I…
— Andrew Fastow
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The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of…
— Kenneth Lay
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Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize…
— Harry Browne
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We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.
— Maria Cantwell
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But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.
— Kenneth Lay
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But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.
— Kenneth Lay
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Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs…
— Ralph Nader
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