Quotes About Economics

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

Chasing new runway capacity to cater to ever more frequent leisure flights by Britain's wealthiest households isn't just iniquitous - it's bad economic policy.

When you look at the wealth gap - the racial wealth gap - all of that is very much connected to housing.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

I have been looking at a number of things in affordable housing because I do know that the price of housing has gone up a lot.

These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there's anxiety about making the wrong one.

God did not say that you should be able to borrow one hundred percent of the price of a house.

Not everyone can afford to plunk down hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a laptop.

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

Senior figures in the War Office and Admiralty decided that sinking German ships would be more cost-effective than building British ones.

Pure, raging, unbridled capitalism. Now, if they could just find ways to steal our raw materials, evade taxation, and not pay our workers their wages, our profit margin might begin to approach what those guys would consider minimally acceptable.

In five hundred years' time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not exist. There will be plenty of other causes. You and me and poor Jones will not even figure in a footnote. It will be all economics, politics, battles.

Capitalists, he argued, will not agree to any social progress completely eliminating unemployment because such a program would reduce the supply of cheap labor. You will never persuade a capitalist to cause himself losses for the sake of satisfying people's needs.

We've got two parties." "No you do not. You have only the party of the banks, of the money men, and they divide it into two pieces for your voting.

Corruption is a tax imposed on any society that doesn't pay people enough to repel it themselves.