Unfortunately, unanimity is not always feasible.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.

It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.

In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.

There is no good way of measuring poverty.