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"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."
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"Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand."
"Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs."
"Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor."
"When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear."
"Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year."
"Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms."
"Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State."
"A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce."
"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany."
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"There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment."
"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."
"There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government."
"The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues."
"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."
"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."
"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."
"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."
"Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level."
"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."
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