All Taxes Are A Drag On Economic

Now, I Only Play Very Occasionally, And In Fact, More Piano Than Clarinet Or Sax.

The Recent Period Has Been Marked By A Transformation To An Economy That Is More Productive As Competitive Forces Become Increasingly Intense And New Technologies Raise The Efficiency Of Our Businesses...while These Tendencies Were No Doubt In Train In The "old," Pre-1990s Economy, They Accelerated Over The Past Decade As A Number Of Technologies With Their Roots In The Cumulative Innovations Of The Past Half-century Began To Yield Dramatic Economic Returns.

The Current Financial Crisis In The Us Is Likely To Be Judged In Retrospect As The Most Wrenching Since The End Of The Second World War.

If You Get Beyond The Political Rhetoric [and Assembled A Group To Solve Social Security] It Would Take Them 15 Minutes. It Would Take Them 15 Minutes Only Because 10 Minutes Was Used For Pleasantries.

This Decade Is Strewn With Examples Of Bright People Who Thought They Built A Better Mousetrap That Could Consistently Extract Abnormal Returns From The Financial Markets. Some Succeed For A Time. But While There May Occasionally Be Mis-configurations Among Market Prices That Allow Abnormal Returns, They Do Not Persist.