Capitalism Quote by Linda McQuaig

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

— Stephen Moore

Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth.

— Gerald Epstein

The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic…

— Mark Thornton

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

— Richard Rogers

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra…

— Polly Toynbee

Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education,…

— George Packer

Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, although whether the net effect is to increase or…

— Ben Bernanke

Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics.

— Stacey Abrams

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns…

— Timothy Geithner

The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and…

— Murray Rothbard

Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of…

— Paul Krugman

The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to…

— John Ensign