On aging societies, there is no reason why a country that has a lot of old people can't be prosperous if, during their working lives, individuals provide for their retirement.

Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.

Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy men. But government is an institution whereby the people who have the greatest drive to get power over their fellow men, get in a position of controlling them. Look at the record of government. Where are these philosopher kings that Plato supposedly was trying to develop?

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and that you would not have lower unemployment.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.