Quotes About Economics

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

I am saying that currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive, and immoral. It should be stopped. It should be made illegal.

California is just too expensive. It's unsustainable.

When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way, just as we shouldn't leave our children or grandchildren with mountains of national debt and unsustainable entitlement programs, we shouldn't leave them with the economic and environmental costs of climate change.

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?

Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.

How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?

Catastrophic health shocks do enormous damage to families both economically and otherwise, and are easy to insure, because nobody gets them on purpose. On the other hand, insurance policies that only treat certain catastrophic illnesses are hard to comprehend, especially of you are illiterate and unused to the legalistic nature of exclusions etc.

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.

Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward.

Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.