Nassim Taleb on Financial System

Jun 132010

Nassim Taleb on our financial system. Don’t miss this one!

From the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their healthcare, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right. A man's life, liberty and the products of his labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Ilana Mercer
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people. Friedrich Hayek
If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky
The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, “See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk”. Harry Browne
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. Cicero

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