Since 2008 you've had the largest bond market rally in history, as the Federal Reserve flooded the economy with quantitative easing to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth. — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It… — Kenneth W. Royce Copy Share Image
The way to get a maximum rate of 'economic growth' assuming this to be our aim - is to give maximum encouragement… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Global central banks are working hard to lift their economies through an aggressively easy monetary policy. The ECB [European Central Bank] and… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Derek caught my arm again as I started to move--at this rate, it was going to be as sore as my injured… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings.… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women. — Umera Ahmad Copy Share Image
The higher the rate, the more interest there is in avoiding the tax. Either you move or you shift your profits overseas,… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long… — John Paulson Copy Share Image
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
If you let interest rates be freed, be set by the free market, they would rise dramatically. There would be a lot… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For me, appropriate policy means that we continue to reduce accommodation and return to a neutral federal funds rate — Michael H. Moskow Copy Share Image
Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image