The Treasury loves pretending pain is a policy, which is how you end up taxing the future for the pleasure of sounding serious today. by John Maynard Keynes

This is why economists should not be allowed to say 'confidence' unless they can define it without crying.

The odd thing is both of you think your plan is humble, and both of you are dressed like an empire that lost the receipt.

He’s right about one thing: every time you call an expensive mistake 'principle,' a recession gets its wings.

You brought it back at the wrong price and called it bravery, which is exactly how expensive mistakes get medals.

When the facts change, I change my mind; when politicians change, they usually just change the label on the failure.

I have crossed swords with worse than economists, though admittedly they were usually more organized.

You say organized, I say unemployed with better stationery; either way, the balance sheet is not impressed.

I did not bring the pound back to the gold standard just to be psychoanalyzed by a man in a waistcoat.