06/21/2016
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"I want to emphasize that we must pursue CBDCs for the right reason, and not simply to pressure ourselves in a pursuit for the sake of trying to keep up with China."
"For about a century, Washington has been married to the idea that the more money that government spends, the more the economy flourishes."
"As John Maynard Keynes, a favorite economist of big government advocates, once aptly said, "The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.""
"I am not sure that long-term care, whatever its merits, has a place in an infrastructure package."