The authorities in the United ...

The authorities in the United States confiscated private gold holdings in the Depression of the 1930's. They may seek to do so again in the Depression of the 1990's.
 James Dale Davidson

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When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
 James Dale Davidson
America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.
 James Dale Davidson