Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
Paul A. Samuelson
[Responding to the question: What is the most important economic problem to be faced by the United States in the next twenty years?]
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Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
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Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. Criticism.
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Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
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Funeral by funeral, theory advances
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Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
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The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.
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Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
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What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?
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