[republicans] Swapped Principle For Power. They Ended

Productivity Is Notoriously Difficult To Predict.

Institutions Of The Newer Participants In Global Finance Had Not Been Tested, Until Recently...recent Crisis Have Underscored Certain Financial Structure Vulnerabilities That Are Not Readily Assuaged In The Short Run.

I Believe That The General Growth In Large [financial] Institutions Have Occurred In The Context Of An Underlying Structure Of Markets In Which Many Of The Larger Risks Are Dramatically -- I Should Say, Fully -- Hedged.

The Abandonment Of The Gold Standard Made It Possible For The Welfare Statists To Use The Banking System As A Means To An Unlimited Expansion Of Credit. In The Absence Of The Gold Standard, There Is No Way To Protect Savings From Confiscation Through Inflation. There Is No Safe Store Of Value. Deficit Spending Is Simply A Scheme For The Hidden Confiscation Of Wealth. Gold Stands In The Way Of This Insidious Process. It Stands As A Protector Of Property Rights. If One Grasps This, One Has No Difficulty In Understanding The Statists' Antagonism Toward The Gold Standard.

These Days, Even Out Of Office, I Still Read Economic Reports.