Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaesis an American author and newspaper and magazine columnist who writes about politics and economics from a libertarian perspective. Shlaes has authored four books and currently chairs the board of trustees of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 September 1960
CountryUnited States of America
bit concerned countries dollar eventually reached states united
Eventually the dollar won't always rule. Eventually there will be a challenge to the United States and it will have to be like other countries that are a bit concerned about their currency, and then have to ratchet back in order to - right, in order to sustain. We just haven't reached that point yet.
jobs unions may
Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.
country independent europe
Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.
jobs government order
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.
children writing school
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.
school zuckerberg add
In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.
children grandparent zombie
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.
years government building
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
children bud ears
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
christian halloween valentine
People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.
pay vote should
Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.
believe reality thinking
We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.
jobs simple differences
The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.
mean saturday stills
The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.