Amity Shlaes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.
-- Amity Shlaes

#Jobs #Unions #May
People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.
-- Amity Shlaes

#Christian #Halloween #Valentine
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
-- Amity Shlaes

#Children #Bud #Ears
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
-- Amity Shlaes

#Government #Years #Building
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.
-- Amity Shlaes

#Children #Grandparent #Zombie
In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.
-- Amity Shlaes

#School #Zuckerberg #Way
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.
-- Amity Shlaes

#Children #School #Writing
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
-- Amity Shlaes

#War #Hands #Forever
To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.
-- Amity Shlaes

#Jobs #Government #Order
Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.
-- Amity Shlaes

#Country #Independent #Europe
Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.
-- Amity Shlaes

#Pay #Vote #Should

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