Quotes About Economics

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Is now the time to legalize prostitution?

Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.

There are limits to how much countries can spend.

There's little money in theatre.

We're really not going to get that much money out of a lottery for a small state like Alabama.

The economy is like a machine.

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.

It's crazy to go into manufacturing. That's not where the money is.

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

Two-sided markets are notoriously finicky.

If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. If markets are bad, which they are, that means people are bad, which they are. Want good markets? Change the people.

We all have to think about the emerging markets.

Everyone's for free markets except when it affects your own business.

I'm not anti-Wall Street - I'm anti-distortions to free markets.

We want to have markets that are self-policing through competition. The Internet community doesn't want the government coming in and regulating it.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

The markets are efficient over time.

I like free markets, but I do like fair markets.

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

The American left's motto comes from the English Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw: "Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul's support.

In addition, the fascists adopted an economic policy that is closely parallel to, and in many respects identical with, today's progressivism. Mussolini called this policy "corporatism," but a more descriptive term would be state-run capitalism.

Comparisons between America and the Scandinavian countries typically focus on the top marginal tax rate. In America, it's around 46 percent when you combine federal and state income taxes. This compares with Norway at 39 percent, Sweden at 56 percent and Denmark at 60 percent. Norway's top marginal income tax rate is actually lower than that of the United States. Sweden and Denmark's rates are substantially higher. But