Famously
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514 examples of Famously in a sentence
Milton Friedman, a leading proponent of the profit-oriented approach to corporate management,
famously
declared that “the business of business is business.”
Princeton University Professor Avinash Dixit
famously
uses clips from films such as “Dr.
It is often argued that the United States, as the major reserve-currency issuer, enjoys what then French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
famously
called in the 1960’s an “exorbitant privilege,” in the form of lower borrowing costs (a benefit estimated to be worth as much as 80 basis points).
As the Nobel laureate economist Paul Samuelson
famously
said, the reason we have two eyes is to keep one on supply and the other on demand.
Argentina’s Use and Abuse of KeynesBUENOS AIRES – “We are all Keynesians now,” Republican US President Richard Nixon
famously
said in 1971.
Madmen in AuthorityPRINCETON – In The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes
famously
worried that, “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.”
He was baffled by the idea that, as his fellow conservative Milton Himmelfarb
famously
quipped, “Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.”
Most famously, Bell Labs recognized the virtues of such a culture in the 1930s-1970s, assembling a collection of creative physicists to whom it gave unadulterated freedom.
The philosopher Isaiah Berlin
famously
distinguished between two styles of thinking, which he identified with the hedgehog and the fox.
A Meeting of Minds on HIV/AIDSGENEVA – An ounce of prevention, Benjamin Franklin
famously
said, is worth a pound of cure.
Somoza
famously
told business leaders: “You make money, and I’ll take care of politics.”
To be sure, the guarantee that the US, as the issuer of the dominant international reserve currency, can acquire low-cost funding for its fiscal deficit and national debt amounts to what former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
famously
called America’s “exorbitant privilege.”
PRINCETON – James Carville, Bill Clinton’s chief campaign strategist in 1992,
famously
expressed a bit of established insider wisdom about winning elections: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
What the World Needs from the BRICSCAMBRIDGE – In 2001, Goldman Sachs’ Jim O’Neill
famously
coined the term BRIC to characterize the world’s four largest developing economies – Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister,
famously
gloated after the Nazis’ legal Machtergreifung (seizure of power): “It will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy that it provided its mortal enemies with the means through which it was annihilated.”
Writing in the nineteenth century, Karl Marx
famously
observed inequality trends in his day and concluded that capitalism could not indefinitely sustain itself politically.
He recognizes that the ratio might reasonably be shaded up for systemically important banks, those
famously
dubbed “too big to fail.”
Education and the Invisible ChildLONDON – In his 1952 novel, Invisible Man, the late Ralph Ellison
famously
portrayed American blacks as silent, long-suffering, and entirely unnoticed by the majority white population.
From Munich to KyivBRATISLAVA/PRAGUE – In 1938, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich proclaiming “peace in our time," Winston Churchill
famously
denounced the decision Britain and France had just made.
Of course, this another ridiculous fabrication from the same man who
famously
said that the Bosnian Muslims had shelled their own villages in order to lure NATO into the war.
Europe’s Real Inflation ProblemPARIS – “Having said that deflation in the United States is highly unlikely,” outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
famously
remarked in 2002, “I would be imprudent to rule out the possibility altogether.”
But even in Spain, which is
famously
successful at retrieving organs from the newly deceased, people die while waiting for a kidney.
China’s former leader Deng Xiaoping
famously
proposed that, for the sake of better Sino-Japanese relations, the two countries should shelve the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute for future generations to resolve.
As John Maynard Keynes
famously
pointed out after the Great Depression, when an economy is locked in a “liquidity trap,” with low interest rates unable to induce investment or consumption, attempting to use monetary policy to spur demand is like pushing on a string.
Over the course of nearly ten years in office, Harper crafted a powerful, highly centralized executive to “get things done” and control the political narrative,
famously
seeking a high level of personal engagement in every aspect of his government.
Descartes
famously
said, “I think, therefore I am.”
This new techno-market system is shaped and characterized by a belief in the increasing importance of knowledge, new ideas, innovations and new technologies, and a higher pace of what the economist Joseph Schumpeter
famously
called "creative destruction."
In his explanation of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
famously
argued that it was caused by Sparta’s fear of a rising Athens.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney
famously
remarked, “deficits don’t matter” – meaning that there were no immediate political consequences of running a budget deficit and pushing up the national debt.
“Keep Calm and Carry On” – as the British government
famously
urged its citizens in 1939 – is advice that often lends itself to parody.
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