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"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."
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"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."

"Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level."

"The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure."

"Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life."

"Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation."

"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

"If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain."

"Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours."

"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."
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