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Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.
Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely... →
The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking... →
The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal... →
The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
If your business is really easy to do, don't gloat. You might be out of a job soon.
Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
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