Economists Have Much To Be

The Growth Of A Nation's Productive Potential Is The Central Factor In Determining Its Growth In Real Wages And Living Standards.... High Rates Of Investment And Saving Usually Have A Big Payoff In Promoting Economic Growth.

The Stock Market Has Predicted Nine Of The Last Five Recessions.

By Keeping Labor Supply Down, Immigration Policy Tends To Keep Wages High. Let Us Underline This Basic Principle: Limitation Of The Supply Of Any Grade Of Labor Relative To All Other Productive Factors Can Be Expected To Raise Its Wage Rate; And Increase In Supply Will, Other Things Being Equal, Tend To Depress Wage Rates.

The Sad Truth Is That It Is Precisely Those Who Disagree Most With The Hypothesis Of Efficient Market Pricing Of Stocks, Those Who Pooh-pooh Beta Analysis And All That, Who Are Least Able To Understand The Analysis Needed To Test That Hypothesis.

When The Economy Was Going Up, [milton Friedman And I] Both Gave The Same Advice, And When The Economy Was Going Down, We Gave The Same Advice. But In Between He Didn't Change His Advice At All.