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If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Drop Earnings Expectations Lifetime Spending Then Will

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Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you can't find someone reliable to do a deal with, you simply don't do the deal at all.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Actions Behavior Deal Detailed Economic Find Government Growth How Including Individuals Irresponsible Many Myself Reliable Similar Simply Slow Someone Too Writers You

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Entitlements seem to grow with prosperity; not only because they are indexed to inflation or GDP, but also because a prosperous country tells itself it can afford more benefits.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Afford Also Because Benefits Country Entitlement Grow Inflation Itself More Only Prosperity Prosperous Seem Tells Gdp

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To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: About Affects Bond Care Company Creation Effect Exchange Factor First Government Great Interest Interest Rates Investors Job Job Creation Long-Term Market Participants Prices Rates Three U.s. Government

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 10th, 1960

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