Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!

One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

Isn't life, ' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves?

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

Your level of gratitude determines your level of happiness, as well as your potential for success. It's difficult to be happy without gratitude.

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.

I don't give a damn what people think.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.