Paul Krugman Quotes

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

Paul Krugman

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• It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Important
  • Organization
  • Movement

• In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • History

• Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Truth

• The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out of the hands of ... members of a dangerous class -the class that knows what's good for us better than we do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Power
  • Political

• Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Fate
  • Victim
  • Pirate

• In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.

  

  Jean Philippe Rameau
  • Contained
  • Sonority
  • Overtones

• If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

  

  Epictetus
  • Work
  • Death
  • Anything

• Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

  

  John Milton
  • Man
  • Education
  • Youth

• Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.

  

  John Dalton
  • Fall
  • Wise
  • Secret

• The idea of fame is repulsive, I want to save the world.

  

  Eleanor Antin
  • World
  • Idea
  • Save

• I stared at the reproduced mural in the book--but I was more interested in his finger as he tapped the book with approval. That finger had pulled a trigger in a war. That finger had touched my mother in tender ways I did not fully comprehend. I wanted to talk, to say something, to ask questions. But I couldn't. All the words were stuck in my throat. So I just nodded.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Book
  • War
  • Interested

• The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.

  

  David Shenk
  • Making
  • Communications
  • Electronic

• What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.

  

  Brandon Marshall
  • People
  • Care
  • Killing

• Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new Treasurys, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer, and the hyper-inflation cat will be completely out of the bag.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Running
  • Cat
  • Inflation

• Of course, the problems of external default, domestic default, and inflation are all integrally related. A government that chooses to default on its debts can hardly be relied on to preserve the value of its country’s currency.

  

  Carmen Reinhart
  • Inflation
  • Related
  • Domestic

• Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Sometimes
  • Bigs
  • Bigger

• You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Inflation
  • Examples