Billionaires start making trouble when they stop making money.
Apr 212021
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You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Mar 252021
Capitalism has been the only loyal friend of the unfit; no wonder they hate it so.
Mar 222021
To destroy a man’s property is to nullify that part of his life devoted to its creation or acquisition. It is to kill him, insensibly and by degrees.
Jan 132021
Between most men and lunacy stands only the necessity of earning a living.
Jan 082021
Justification is a kind of subsidy, and produces, like all subsidies, more of what is being subsidized.
Dec 082020
What you see is, at most, what you get.
Dec 072020
Markets tend naturally toward monopoly in certain commodities, like diamonds, or ideas.
Dec 022020
A polity achieves decadence when the companies that help you make money make less money than the companies that help you spend it.
Sep 162020
An unexpected consequence of social media has been to make public begging respectable.
Aug 052020
Sound economic policy facilitates the parting of fools and their money.