A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.
If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1. 3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Street and that the thread of a Great Depression 2. 0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree of money printing that exceeded any other episode in recorded human history.
I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.
In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the presidency and both houses of Congress. Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan have no plan to take on Wall Street, the Fed, the military-industrial complex, social insurance or the nation’s fiscal calamity and no plan to revive capitalist prosperity — just empty sermons.
It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down. ' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.
When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick.
Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.
There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.