Acquire Quote by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they…

— Murray Rothbard

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

— Karl Marx

I do not think commodities are taken for granted. One of the convergences in time I noticed, and to me seemed very important, was…

— Marina Warner

“If the world economy is going to revive, I believe commodities are going to lead it back up. If the world economy is not…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily…

— Benjamin Graham

Just being able to trade financial commodities is a serious limitation because financial commodities represent only a tiny fraction of the reality of the…

— Blythe Masters

For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest…

— Hans F. Sennholz

The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity itself isn't…

— Warren Buffett

“It’s unavoidable: so long as we value money more highly than living beings and more highly than relationships, we will continue to see living…

— Derrick Jensen

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

— Alan Greenspan

It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid…

— Murray Rothbard

I believe the world economy will crash when Russia or China moves to a gold-backed currency. They know that when this thing blows, the…

— Max Keiser