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• Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.
  • Louis Rukeyser's Wall Streetnewsletter, Nov 96

• Trees don't grow to the sky.
  • On the inevitablility of down markets as well as up markets
  • July 26, 2002, Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street

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• Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.
  • On bureaucratic efficiency

• Good Evening, I'm Louis Rukeyser. This is Wall $treet Week... Welcome Back.

• Only liberals have trouble understanding that if you subsidize sloth and fertility, you get more; and if you penalize hard work and thrift, you get less.
  • On welfare reform and tax policy

• "What's It All About, Alfie?" This was the title of a song from the popular Michael Caine movie of the same name. Louis Rukeyser enjoyed quoting the title often, usually as a means of introducing new subject matter on his show WALL STREET WEEK.

• "Remember, it's only your money. It's not your life."
  • On maintaining a sense of perspective

• "Wink!" At the end of every WALL STREET WEEK, just as the final credits would roll, the TV audience received a warm wink from Mr. Rukeyser, which was a sign of his solidarity and charm. A trademark of his, perhaps, more indelible to his viewers than anything he could ever have articulated.