BY THE WAY…
COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 28 Jan 2010
When President Nixon proposed voluntary restraints on wage and price increases to fight inflation, John Kenneth Galbraith mocked, "I hope the next step will be voluntary taxes. I will be the first not to pay them."
John Kenneth Galbraith called Reaganomics "horse and sparrow economics": If you feed enough oats to the horses, some of it will be dropped on the roads for the sparrows.
Having email is like coming home from a long day at the office and finding 70 people in the kitchen waiting to talk with you.
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