Economy Quote by Charles Bracelen Flood

“I asked him if he thought “there” was better than “here.” “Not better,” he said. “I mean, my great-great-grandpap got his leg shot off.…

— Tony Horwitz

“Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick buildings reared…

— Barbara Hambly

“Each writer had a bedroom in the main house and a shack or “work cottage” in which to write. We all met up for…

— Harlan Coben

“Lee, who had borne the guilt of polluting public waters and been cheated by a dishonest official at a tax office, wanted to feel…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“One foot in front of the other,' Lee murmured. 'One sand dollar and then another.”

— Lisa Henry

“And with the inflation our inner system disintegrated utterly. Fortunes disappeared overnight. Money that one day would have meant lifelong security, on the next…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“They--the books I mean, not the ladies of Technical Services, though maybe those ladies too--might have dreamed of a different life in a private…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“They had managed to convert their wealth, which had originally been in the form of factories or stores or other demanding enterprises, into a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some…

— Wallace Stegner

“And he goes round with a fat roll of dollar bills, and got this nice farm, and all them fancy machines, and man let…

— David Baldacci

“The road was suburbia central, and I was surprised the street itself wasn’t paved with banknotes.”

— Jade West

“Baltimore was Earth writ small, crowded and bored. Its citizens were caught between the dismal life of basic and the barriers of class, race,…

— James S.A. Corey