Attitude Quote by Ian Macfarlane

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free…

— Milton Friedman

What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it…

— Milton Friedman

“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular…

— Milton Friedman

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about…

— Hugo Chavez

I believe in market economics. But to paraphrase Churchill - who said this about democracy and political regimes - a market economy might be…

— Nouriel Roubini

“Free markets are necessary to promote long-term growth, but they are not self-regulating, particularly when it comes to banks and other large financial institutions.”

— Francis Fukuyama

Finance is about being short-term greedy, rather than thinking about the markets as a critical part of our society that exist to empower the…

— Baiju Bhatt

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being…

— Paul Krugman

“Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned truism, is that the free market is…

— Andy Grove

The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

Critics, often for good reason, are concerned that the Fed is wielding its vast powers in the interests of the banks and not in…

— Gerald Epstein