“I am constantly asked what we are going to do with the [Nobel economics] prize money – $1.2 million before Uncle Sam takes his very large bite. The answer to that is a simple lesson in economics. Wants always expand to take advantage of new opportunities, which explains why consumers in rich countries feel no more satiated than do those in poor countries. My wife and I won’t have the slightest difficulty spending the prize money.”

Gary Becker in Business Week November 2 1992 [but if so then the marginal utility of new income is zero which surely is not true]

“Feeling badly done to is not a saleable commodity.”

Another of mine, from September 16, 2005 (these days I’m not so sure, but it still shouldn’t be)

In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s amazing that people still think our governments can make us healthy, wealthy, wise and well-housed when they routinely bungle their most elementary responsibilities including national defence, unable even to find weapons for our desperately undersized military.

In my latest National Post column I say Trudeau’s mean-spirited, partisan remarks about the truckers’ convoy reflect a chronically divisive approach at a time when Canadians need a respectful exchange of ideas not a surly exchange of insults.

“It wasn’t clear whether this was obvious, false, or possibly both.”

Peter Foster in National Post November 19, 1999 [specifically regarding Peter Drucker and entering a “knowledge society” but it applies amazingly widely].

In my latest National Post column I say the reason official Ottawa is so inert in the face of rising inflation, beyond the usual smugness, is that if interest rates go up public borrowing will become unsustainable. (As in the US, where it’s beyond the more general issue of rage rather than Canadian-style complacency paralyzing debate.)

In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s not really news that our vaunted socialized medicine delivers terrible results at excessive cost… or that calls for reform always specify that in revamping it nothing must be changed.

In my latest National Post column I lampoon self-centred objections to the Pope calling preferring pets to children selfish.