Good Questions Outrank Easy Answers.

An American Economist Of Two Generations Ago, H. J. Davenport, Who Was The Best Friend Thorstein Veblen Ever Had (veblen Actually Lived For A Time In Davenport's Coal Cellar) Once Said: "there Is No Reason Why Theoretical Economics Should Be A Monopoly Of The Reactionaries." All My Life I Have Tried To Take This Warning To Heart, And I Dare Call It To Your Favorable Attention.

Economists Are Said To Disagree Too Much But In Ways That Are Too Much Alike: If Eight Sleep In The Same Bed, You Can Be Sure That, Like Eskimos, When They Turn Over, They'll All Turn Over Together.

In Every Mutual Fund Prospectus, In Every Sales Promotional Folder, And In Every Mutual Fund Advertisement (albeit In Print Almost Too Small To Read), The Following Warning Appears: "past Performance Is No Guarantee Of Future Results."

But The Trouble Is That He [alan Greenspan] Had Been An Ayn Rander. You Can Take The Boy Out Of The Cult But You Can't Take The Cult Out Of The Boy.

Anyone With Special Abilities Earns A Differential Return On That Flair, Which We Economists Call A Rent. Those Few With Extraordinary P.q. (performance Quotient) Will Not Give Away Such Rent To The Ford Foundation Or The Local Bank Trust Department. They Have Too High An I.q. For That.