An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble.

One of my hobbies is reading finance and economic books—at the strip club, where I “invest” my money.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.