Cost Quote by Michael Hudson Download Open image “Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living.” — Michael Hudson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cost Cost of living Economy Helping Housing Life Raises
In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof.… — William Baldwin Copy Share Image
When people are able to live at home, they have more disposable income. That part is good for the economy. — John Layfield Copy Share Image
Instead of building housing in a wealthy neighborhood and saying, here you go, here's some under the market which will, by the way, drop… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
When you feel house poor, you don't buy anything. Housing immediately impacts the job numbers because there are so many housing-related jobs within the… — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
There is plenty of housing - for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the poor. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Moderately priced homes might draw working families in a metro area. And having rising incomes at the top might price lower-income families out. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson 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… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
If you end internet neutrality and permit mergers of the big information technology corporations, that's a form of rent seeking. It's part of today's… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
You could say that the vote to withdraw from Europe is, it's really a vote of the British middle class, the working class, to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The United States and Europe are in a state of debt deflation, where people and businesses have to pay banks instead of spending their… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Income is sucked upward to the creditors, who then foreclose on the assets of debtors. This shrinks tax revenue, forcing public budgets into deficit.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives. — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image