The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
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The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.
The remarkable fact is not how much government does to control economic activity, but how much it does not do.
You don't grow the economy by growing government.
It should not be the government running the economy.
Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
The Federal Reserve cannot solve all the economy's problems on its own.
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.
Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.
The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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