Quotes About Economics

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?

It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.

Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.

You have 62 people worth the amount the bottom three and a half billion people are worth. Sixty-two people! You could put them all in one bloody bus… then crash it!

The cost of living is going up while the chances of living are going down.

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

Money is the seed of money.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

Money Value of Time" is more valuable than "Time Value of Money", you will know it by time.

both tariff rates and domestic charges for the use of railroad freight blatantly discriminated against the South, impeding its ability to grow and compete. The rates charged for shipping goods along the nation's railways had for decades been rigged to protect Northern markets from Southern goods.

Although in principle both women believed in love, neither of them believed in romance. It was all a performance for them, what women had to do for men, what men had to do for women—it was a manner of assessing each other's value. Cora had taken an economics class in college and was fairly certain her vagina was a capitalist tool.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.