Money Quote by Tony Judt

“financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge…

— Thomas Jefferson

“History has shown that money is a salve unto itself for any malady of the troubled mind.”

— James Daniel Ross

“The moral transformation of individuals engaged in economic transactions tend to become, for example, the answer to economic problems: if only our greedy CEOs…

— Kathryn Tanner

“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.”

— Robert W. Sarnoff

“We live in a global economy where voracious political and corporate greed has turned your life into a disposable commodity to be used and…

— Martin Yate

“The personal checks and balances that most of us bring to bear when we are employed in other activities - we ask ourselves if…

— Raghuram G. Rajan

“Our current economic crises stem, at least in part, from our inability to recognize the storage bias of the money we use. Since it…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without…

— Georges Bataille

In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.

— Sheldon Richman

“Such a crises occurs only where the ever-lengthening chain of payments, and an artificial system of settling them, has been fully developed. Whenever there…

— Karl Marx

“until the late twentieth century—the scarce resource in business was financial capital. If you had it, you had the means to create more wealth,…

— Geoff Colvin