- Prosperous
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Disenfranchised
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- Nov 07, 2020
The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country? We are the capital magnet of this planet and we are the savior for not only people, for not only freedom, but also for capital.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.
- Changes
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
- Colleague
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
- Bank
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- Nov 07, 2020
And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ask me whether inflation represents longer-term problem. I think there's a potential there for excess reserves to create problems.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been truly blessed. I've been a fly on the wall of history. I've been just so many lucky places just by chance and serendipity, and obviously a huge portion of that serendipity had to do with my relationship with the real president, Ronald Reagan.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My godfather was a man named Justin Dart. Some of you may remember Justin Dart. My younger son's name is Justin, named after Justin Dart. I was executor of his estate, and he was my godfather. I first really got time to spend with Ronald Reagan with Justin Dart personally, one-on-one.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020