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  • Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.

    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.234, Penguin
  • I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it.

    Interview with Peter Mansbridge, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 5, 2012.
  • Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

  • The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

    Barack Obama's speech Against Raising The Debt Ceiling on the floor of the US Senate, www.redstate.com. March 16, 2006.
  • When you're facing the threat of recession, you need to have an expansionary monetary and fiscal policy. Pre-Keynesian, Hooverite views are dead everywhere except on 19th Street in Washington.

    Source: www.progressive.org
  • As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

  • The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.

  • Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

    "The World According to Carly Fiorina". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.wired.com. July 10, 2008.
  • I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.

    "Paul Krugman on Debt, but Are Soaring Interest Rates Running Against Him?". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. May 29, 2013.
  • The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

  • Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state.

    Lying   Moving   Europe  
    "Brown vows to keep national control" by Ian Black and Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.
  • Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

    "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" by Robert Nozick, (p. 169), 1974.
  • Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

  • If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

  • The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

    "Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here". Ben Bernanke's Remarks Before the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. November 21, 2002.
  • I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

  • ... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

  • It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation. It is this one-two punch - Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow, and the Fed printing money to make up the difference - that threatens to impoverish us by further destroying the value of our dollars.

  • The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.

    Smart   People   Dumb  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

  • Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.50, Best Books on
  • Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.

  • The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely critical and if people looked at Australia now turn its back on economic reform, which of course industrial relations rollback or throwback would be, let me tell you, that would really start affecting confidence.

    "The World Today" with Chris Uhlmann, ministers.treasury.gov.au. August 16, 2007.
  • Abenomics, quantitative easing, fiscal policy - we know all the issues.

    Source: asia.nikkei.com
  • The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century.

    Running   Country   Past  
    "US 'could be going bankrupt'" by Edmund Conway, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 14, 2006.
  • This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control], we're Greece. We're a banana republic. Our status as a nation is threatened by what we’ve got coming at us in the area of deficit and debt. And it’s only a few more years, at the most, that we have to work with here before the market says, ‘Sorry, your currency is something we can not continue to defend.’

    Sorry   Years   Political  
    "'We're Greece' in a Few Years: Sen. Gregg". www.cnbc.com. November 3, 2010.
  • I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.

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