Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers… — Richard Karn Copy Share Image
Neither Obama nor Romney will be able to 'heal' our 'pockets' during the next four years. The only thing I'm sure about… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money,… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety,… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies. Its fundamental concern is with the material… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest decisions I've made in my life are by instinct. I remember when I hired Bill I had a lot of… — Robert Kraft Copy Share Image
“The Spanish Civil War proved both the revolutionary vigour of communitarian bonds and forms which have been penetrated by capital but which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a long time, early industrializing countries were absorptive. They were endlessly able to absorb new labor inputs to keep expanding. This… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth --… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
My position is that I am personally opposed to abortion, but I don't think I have a right to impose my view… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many… — David Kim Copy Share Image
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their… — John Key Copy Share Image
The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“The economic base of a social formation, the infrastructure, includes the social relations of production the produce the material necessities of life.… — David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on… — Charles Dunoyer Copy Share Image
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Never let it be said that the world of international economics isn't exciting or adventurous. OK, I exaggerate, because not even the… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings'… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
