Quotes About Economics

GDP is a function of capital, labour and how productively you use both.

Europe has massive challenges in completing the single market, the free movement of labour or benefits.

Markets go up not because there is abundance of buyers, but because there is a lack of sellers.

Profit ? Cash (and You Need Both)

As the economist John Maynard Keynes once pointed out, buying stocks is like trying to anticipate who will win a beauty contest. You want to choose not the person who you think is the most beautiful but the person you think everyone else will see as most beautiful. So it is with stocks: prices rise not just when a company turns in great performance but when a lot of investors believe that the future will bring even better performance

The art of accounting and finance is the art of using limited data to come as close as possible to an accurate description of how well a company is performing.

Fur ranchers choose the cheapest, not the kindest, kill methods, the main concern being the preservation of the whole coat. Many ranchers use anal electrocution, which fries the animal from the inside out, microwave style. At FurIsDead.com there is footage of animals undergoing anal electrocution, including an unsuccessful attempt repeated on the same animal. We also see a farmer who injects insecticide into the chests of minks, who die convulsing in agony over many minutes.

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

As things stand today capitalist civilization cannot continue; we must either move forward into socialism or fall back into barbarism.

Den Weltmarkt erobern«: Weil Händler so sprachen, mußten Krieger so handeln. Seitdem wird erobert, wenngleich nicht der Weltmarkt.

Capitalism is war socialism is peace.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. If it be useless, the labor contained in it is useless, cannot be reckoned as labor, and cannot therefore create value.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Capital is dead labor, which, ampire-like, Iives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Capital is money, capital is commodities.. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays golden eggs.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

The research findings are quite clear: marriages that are homogamous in terms of economic background, religion, and closeness in age are the most stable and tend to be happier.