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- The free-market economist has learned from many different examples that when individuals and firms systematically make boneheaded decisions that lose them gobs of money, there is usually a government policy driving the madness. Robert P. Murphy
- There isn't any problem we can't solve if government will give us the facts. Tell us what needs to be done. Then, get out of the way and let us have at it. Ronald Reagan
- Barack Obama is an actor who acts as if he is a president. Monty Pelerin
- In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. John Kenneth Galbraith
- Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas Jefferson
- Inflation is taxation without legislation. Milton Friedman
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Twenty Reasons Why Europe is in Deep Doo-doo, read it here: http://t.co/Qnf7B4CS 2 days ago
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