"Social Security is a social insurance program -……" — Paul Krugman
"Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k)."
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75 Quotes by Paul Krugman
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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,…
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We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very…
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However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What 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…
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People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer…
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Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the…
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Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better…
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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…
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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…
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Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by…
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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the…
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More Designed Quotes
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
— Karen Armstrong
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
— Julian Assange
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
— Mackenzie Astin
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
— Jacques Barzun
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution,…
— Glenn Beck
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
— Omar N. Bradley
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights…
— William J. Brennan
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