Quotes About Economics

Lots of us have been plugging away, building a platform to talk about libertarian communism and post-scarcity economics.

Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.

The best way to hit a man is in his pocket.

You must believe in people. You must give back their money in their own pockets.

I believe in the popularizing of art. But when you get right down to it, it's a bit of an elitist world. Not just economically elitist - how many people read poetry?

The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.

I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.

There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.

I think the Chinese clubs put up a lot of money for the players who go to China, to make the Chinese league stronger.

The commercial airplane business is an incredible growth business.

British shows, especially on a first commission, don't get the cash that the U.S. shows get.

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.

I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.

Hollywood and Bollywood films cannot be compared because of their budgets!

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

If you approach economic policy with the spirit of compromise, you can actually get good support.

Capital is kind of a banking concept.

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

Looting speaks to a lack of economic opportunities - frankly, we all would loot, too, if our families' continued survival depended on it.