“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies… — Bill Gross 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
Economists may not know how to run the economy, but they know how to create shortages or gluts simply by regulating prices… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology,… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Economics and politics are so intertwined and interlinked that politics now, mainstream politics, extreme center politics, are little else but a version… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The idea that, in the age of Google, Facebook and the internet, government can control the 'commanding heights' of the economy is… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
“Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
“The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45… — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Copy Share Image
Economic polarization is also occurring between creditor and debtor nations. This issplitting the eurozone between Germany, France and the Netherlands in the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
When inflation begins to rise, that's a situation we know how to deal with. When the economy is not doing well, and… — Charles L. Evans Copy Share Image
