Kindlehighlight Quote by Matt Taibbi Download Open image ““Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.”” — Matt Taibbi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kindlehighlight
The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In order for capitalism to evolve from its current toxic expression, I propose the value of international currencies be tied to an Index of… — Said Elias Dawlabani Copy Share Image
“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the… — Libreria Editrice Vaticana Copy Share Image
“What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and… — Robert F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Facebook also has a fundamental characteristic that has proven key to its appeal in country after country—you only see friends there.” — David Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign… — Joe Navarro Copy Share Image
“I pulled the dress out of the bag and held it in front of me. Ella sat up straighter and squinted her eyes, while… — Blaize Clement Copy Share Image
“little children never get frozen by their selfishness. Like the disciples, they come just as they are, totally self-absorbed. They seldom get it right.… — Paul Miller Copy Share Image
“What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is… — R. A. (Reuben Archer) Torrey Copy Share Image
That love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“and line of cases. Justice Byron R. "Whizzer" White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of "raw judicial power," as it took… — William J. Bennett Copy Share Image
“I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions, I have been… — Frank I. Luntz Copy Share Image
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