The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
“It [predatory capitalism] is incapable of meeting human needs that can be expressed only in collective terms, and its concept of competitive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home,… — John Médaille Copy Share Image
“Why not give ME 50 billion dollars. I can go build a car plant and make cars. I can go employ people.… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
Politicians have patronised and talked down to us all when it comes to our economy, but ordinary working people have to manage… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition… — Frederic Mishkin Mishkin Frederic Copy Share Image
“Due to its inherently limited supply for each location, land obtains its value from the natural, social, and cultural wealth that exists… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the… — Helena Norberg-Hodge Copy Share Image
“To qualify as Econs, people are not required to make perfect forecasts (that would require omniscience), but they are required to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled,… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
In an economic recession, I'd rather that in order to get out of this recession, that the people be spending their money,… — George W Bush Copy Share Image
I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“The connected economy of ideas demands that we contribute initiative. And yet we resist, because our lizard brain, the one that lives… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It's important for market participants to have a sense of how we think about the economy and the appropriate path of policy,… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible… — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
“The industrial economy put a premium on the repetitive delivery of process-driven factory work. This is what delivered quality products, consistently. The… — Gyan Nagpal Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
If you look at cricket per se, if you didn't have T20 cricket, Test cricket will die. People don't realise. You just… — Ravi Shastri Copy Share Image
The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image