David Stockman Quotes

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.

It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.

Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.

I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.

Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.

Let's have honest interest rates. Let's let the free market set interest rates in that zone where supply of savings is matched up with demand for real borrowing for capital projects.

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.