Nina Easton Quotes

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

Production is the only answer to inflation.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for revenue, government sees a seemingly harmless method of raising funds without causing much inflation, it will grab on to it.

By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.

Government should adjust its rates of expenditure and taxation such that total spending is neither more or less than that which is sufficient to purchase the full employment level of output at current prices. If this means there is deficit, greater borrowing, "printing money," etc., then these things in themselves are neither good or bad, they are simply the means to the desired ends of full employment and price stability.

If by carelessness in controlling inflation and imposing controls on our general economy we are unable to meet these temporary but vital calls upon us, we will be courting real disaster.

If one wants to avoid the recurrence of economic crises, one must avoid the expansion of credit that creates the boom and inevitably leads into the slump.

Whip Inflation Now

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.

Cuts in tax rates on individual and company income nearly always produce more revenue, not less.

At some risk of oversimplification, I suggest that the usual reason a business cycle turns into a monster is an overdose of government policy.

Things swept so badly that I had distrust - after 1967, let's say - of American Keynesianism. For better or worse, U.S. Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian.

During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.

I'm a strong-and-stable-dollar advocate, and the Fed has been moving dangerously away from that mission.

While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.

The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity.

The higher interest and higher inflation is a vicious cycle.

The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.

Weirdly enough, I'm a macroeconomics enthusiast.

We will watch very carefully what is happening in the economy and adjust policies appropriate.

To get great again, we need to recreate what made us great in the first place, and so we're going to have to let interest rates go up.

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies.