Quotes About Economics

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Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

owning capital is not a productive activity.

In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.

The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

According to federal reports filed yesterday, the Obama campaign spent more money than they raised in the month of May. They spent more money than they raised? Well, that's called being a Democrat

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.