I can't think of a president who has been overburdened by a knowledge of economics.

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• Paul Samuelson:

  I believe, in the stock market - that's one of my fields - that most people are irrational. And to

• Paul Samuelson:

  U.S. capital formation, which has been pretty high in the '90s and very high in the late 1990s, is

• Paul Samuelson:

  We've become a debtor nation. I don't mean just on fixed-loan terms, but we own increasingly less a

• Paul Samuelson:

  Rent control created deadweight loss.

• Paul Samuelson:

  Women are men without money.

• Paul Samuelson:

  A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession

• Paul Samuelson:

  I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human intere

• Paul Samuelson:

  Actually, in my advanced, high-falutin' frontier economics, I often work with what I define as 'mon

• Paul Samuelson:

  When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?

• Paul Samuelson:

  The Malthusian Theory - that mankind, for biological and sociological reasons, is so fertile, so fe