Currency Quote by David Korten Download Open image “We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.” — David Korten ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Currency Europe Moving Should
Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which… — David Korten Copy Share Image
I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Regional currencies will prove the best route to reconciling the economic imperatives of increasing international capital mobility with the political realities of the nation-state. — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
A national currency, with the Euro as a common currency - that wouldn't bother me. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. — David Korten Copy Share Image
To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes… — David Korten Copy Share Image
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. — David Korten Copy Share Image
The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or… — David Korten Copy Share Image
But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and… — David Korten Copy Share Image
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both. — David Korten Copy Share Image
There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able… — David Korten Copy Share Image
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. — David Korten Copy Share Image
I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own… — David Korten Copy Share Image
There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power… — David Korten Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go… — Peter Schiff Copy Share
When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency.… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else. — James Richardson Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in a while somebody will buy a 50-year-old bottle of wine and say, "Wait a minute. This has gone bad." The answer is, "Well, that wine isn't for drinking; that's for trading." These $100 bills aren't meant… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility,… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the E.U. and keep… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
My single biggest financial concern is the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency. I can't imagine anything more disastrous to our country. . .you're already seeing things in the markets that are suggesting that confidence in the dollar is waning. . .I think you could see a 25% reduction in the standard of living in this country if… — Sam Zell Copy Share
