I Am Saddened That It Is Politically

When Trust Is Lost, A Nation's Ability To Transact Business Is Palpably Undermined.

At The Risk Of Some Oversimplification, If The Skill Composition Of Our Work Force Meshed Fully With The Needs Of Our Increasingly Complex Capital-stock, Wage-skill Differentials Would Be Stable, And The Percentage Changes In Wage Rates Would Be The Same For All Job Grades.

I Don't Think It's Possible For The Fed To End Its Easy-money Policies In A Trouble-free Manner. Recent Episodes In Which Fed Officials Hinted At A Shift Toward Higher Interest Rates Have Unleashed Significant Volatility In Markets, So There Is No Reason To Suspect That The Actual Process Of Boosting Rates Would Be Any Different. I Think That Real Pressure Is Going To Occur Not By The Initiation By The Federal Reserve, But By The Markets Themselves.

I Have One Other Issue I'd Like To Throw On The Table. I Hesitate To Do It, But Let Me Tell You Some Of The Issues That Are Involved Here. If We Are Dealing With Psychology, Then The Thermometers One Uses To Measure It Have An Effect. I Was Raising The Question On The Side With Governor Mullins Of What Would Happen If The Treasury Sold A Little Gold In This Market. There's An Interesting Question Here Because If The Gold Price Broke In That Context, The Thermometer Would Not Be Just A Measuring Tool. It Would Basically Affect The Underlying Psychology.

Before I Met Ayn Rand, I Was A Logical Positivist, And Accordingly, I Didn't Believe In Absolutes, Moral Or Otherwise. If I Couldn't Prove A Proposition With Facts And Figures, It Was Without Merit.