• Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

    Paul Krugman: Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.
    "Paul Krugman on Why David Stockman Is a Crank". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. June 6, 2013.