19th century Quote by Robert Breault

“If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has…

— Dani Rodrik

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

— Thomas Piketty

I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the…

— Ronald Reagan

As a steward of the U.S.economy and financial systems, the Treasury has helped lay the groundwork for the American economy to become a model…

— Henry Paulson

Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to "fine-tune" the…

— Thomas DiLorenzo

In the early 19th century, when the country was transitioning from an agrarian to an industrial economy, we subsidised transportation and created a national…

— Brian Deese

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application…

— Eliot Spitzer

“Before the invention of the GDP, economists were rarely quoted by the press, but in the years after World War II they became a…

— Rutger Bregman

We need to get a business tax system that makes us competitive to the rest of the world.

— Gary Cohn

We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.

— Mark Pincus

“The American economy is the most creative and enterprising and productive system ever devised.”

— George W. Bush

“The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their…

— Newton Lee