Quotes About Economics

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

This is crazy Donald. When I see the prices at the mall, I just want to vomit.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What's wrong with a growth rate of 0%? Isn't this a rather stable kind of economics? Could there be anything better than living simply and taking it easy?

History is a branch of mathematics. So is literature. Economics is a branch of religion.

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

Market failure is a favourite phrase; government failure is not.

Bill Clinton's political formula for seizing the presidency was simple. He made money tight in the ghettos and let it flow free on Wall Street. He showered the projects with cops and bean counters and pulled the cops off the beat in the financial services sector. And in one place he created vast new mountain ranges of paperwork, while in another, paperwork simply vanished.

Bill Clinton's political formula for seizing the presidency was simple. He made money tight in the ghettos and let it flow free on Wall Street.

In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he's unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.

Once we have the power to create the world's money, it won't matter who is elected in this or that country." " 'Give me the power to create a nation's money, and I care not who makes its laws'."

On economics, crime, and welfare, the Clinton presidency offered plenty for conservatives to like. They never forgave him for it.

Tant de choses essentielles au bonheur n'ont rien à voir avec des transactions économiques.

La oferta y el surgimiento del capitalismo del bienestar

Since the baby boomer generation, the middle-income group has grown smaller with each successive generation

Trump's economic adviser Peter Navarro updates this refrain when he says: "My function, really, as an economist is to try to provide the underlying analytics that confirm his intuition. And his intuition is always right in these matters.

He has nothing useful to say about fascism who is unwilling to mention capitalism.

Capitalism existed in China, India, Babylon, in the classic world, and in the Middle Ages.

In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic brotherliness, unless it is among strata who are economically carefree. Under the technical and social conditions of rational culture, an imitation of the life of Buddha, Jesus, or Francis seems condemned to failure for purely external reasons.

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.

Gold belongs with a class of speculative investments and should be kept to a minimum in long-term investment portfolios. This statement is valid until the world adopts gold as the main component of a new international currency.

History teaches us that people from different religions and ethnic groups can be united around one economic goal; equality and prosperity for all. We saw that in the rise of the communist USSR. When the economic policies of the USSR failed, ethnic and national divisions took the forefront and the USSR's was dissolved. That could happen to the US if we are hit by hyperinflation or currency collapse. No country is above the socioeconomic laws, US included.

The poor work to make money for the rich, the middle class work to make money for themselves, the rich make money from other people's work.

Throughout the history, national and international conflicts can be traced to economic reasons, they can be disguised under different propaganda and may take different forms as conflicts evolve, but these forms are the effect not the cause.