Quotes About Economics

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

Trump is bringing his business acumen to politics. That's something that politicians don't have: business acumen, many of them. And so they don't recognize it, and they don't understand it.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. 'Corporation' is just the most recent name for it.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

Cuttin' taxes for strippers and thugs.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

The momentum today behind the idea of a new global reserve currency reflects, in effect, the rise of the rest in world politics and economics, led by China.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.

It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a large number of people do not share in these benefits and the result is increasing inequality.

Every capitalist is rich, but every rich is not a capitalist.

Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

There is but one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild.

Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.