But Rules Cannot Substitute For Character.

Look, I'm Very Much In Favor Of Tax Cuts, But Not With Borrowed Money. And The Problem That We've Gotten Into In Recent Years Is Spending Programs With Borrowed Money, Tax Cuts With Borrowed Money, And At The End Of The Day That Proves Disastrous. And My View Is I Don't Think We Can Play Subtle Policy Here.

As Long As We Issue Fiat Currency, I See No Alternative To A Legal Tender Law.

We May Be In A Rapidly Evolving International Financial System With All The Bells And Whistles Of The So-called New Economy. But The Old-economy Rules Of Prudence Are As Formidable As Ever. We Violate Them At Our Own Peril.

We Are In The Midst Of A Once-in-a-century Credit Tsunami. Central Banks And Governments Are Being Required To Take Unprecedented Measures. Those Of Us Who Have Looked To The Self-interest Of Lending Institutions To Protect Shareholders' Equity Are In A State Of Shocked Disbelief.

Clearly, Sustained Low Inflation Implies Less Uncertainty About The Future, And Lower Risk Premiums Imply Higher Prices Of Stocks And Other Earning Assets. We Can See That In The Inverse Relationship Exhibited By Price/earnings Ratios And The Rate Of Inflation In The Past. But How Do We Know When Irrational Exuberance Has Unduly Escalated Asset Values, Which Then Become Subject To Unexpected And Prolonged Contractions As They Have In Japan Over The Past Decade?