Economic Quote by Vaclav Klaus

“To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.” quote by Vaclav Klaus — Download Open image

“To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.”

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That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we…

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EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.

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"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".

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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a…

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Human relations tend to be more difficult when you're dealing with someone who weighs 30 kilograms more than you do. That's when you worry about whether a well-meaning gesture could produce complications. We have no problems with countries like Madagascar or Bolivia, for example. But Germany is our neighbor and we have a shared past. Besides, Germany is powerful and…

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The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept…

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I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not their own)…

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Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

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And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at least name them: We all care about human rights, but I am afraid of 'human rightism.' We all want to have a healthy environment, but I see the danger in environmentalism. To put it politically correctly, I admire…

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To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or to a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is impossible to accept. Elementary rationality and my decades-long experience with econometric modelling and statistical testing of scientific hypotheses tell me that it is impossible to make…

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