Quotes About Economy

Banks used to issue their own currencies. You can see these old banknotes in the Smithsonian. 'First National Bank of South Bumfuck will remit ten pork bellies to the bearer,' or whatever. That had to stop because commerce became nonlocal—you needed to be able to take your money with you when you went out West, or whatever. But if we're online, the whole world is local, Randy says.

What, not coins in the bank? Does your purse hang as flaccid as a gelding's scrotum?

This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world.

If the Cloud Ark survived, it would survive on a water-based economy.

And when horny, well-paid American flyboys are dropped into a culture defined half by cannibals and half by Frenchmen, you get a hell of a civilian economy.

THE LAY OF WALMART TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: "The Lay of Walmart" comprises two parts. Handwriting analysis confirms that both were written by the same author, self-identified as Tóki Olafsson, a skald

Que una industria semejante pudiera existir le pareció extraño e improbable hasta que leyó un artículo donde se calculaba que el tamaño de la economía mundial del oro virtual oscilaba entre los mil y los diez mil millones de dólares al año.

Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy. But it would be easy to see a will at work behind this: not exactly an evil will, but a selfish will. The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story.

This had led to college and grad school and a long dispiriting run of un- and underemployment, since the economy didn't seem interested in comparative religion majors.

is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world.

But even if they did have that kind of money rattling around in their pockets, actually spending it would offend their native frugality.

Ammonia worked better, but it was dangerous, and you couldn't easily get more of it in space. If the Cloud Ark survived, it would survive on a water-based economy. A hundred years from now everything in space would be cooled by circulating water systems. But for now they had to keep the ammonia-based equipment running as well. Further

Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy.

economy-minded three-ringers who have just shelled out a million yen for a Narcolombia license and who need some real estate, any real estate, that they can throw a fence around and extraterritorialize.

Even if we could get China and India to stop burning shit tomorrow, and crash their economies for the sake of Mother Earth," T.R. said, "it wouldn't undo what we've done, as a civilization, to the atmosphere since we first worked out how to turn fossil fuel into work.

I don't like to spend money. Every time I spend it, I feel as if I'm being raped.

And what happens when you stop innovating? Everyone else catches up, your jobs go overseas, and then you cry foul: Ooohh, they're paying them less over there, and the playing field is not level. Well, stop whining and start innovating.

If you talk to the big polluters, they'll tell you that we have to choose between economic prosperity on one hand and environmental protection on the other, and that's a false choice.

And they looked like poor fishermen. But this was Cuba, where everyone had a second job.

fast-food places, discount stores, car dealers, and what passes for nightclubs hereabouts.

You mean, business is slowing down?" She nodded. "Lots of my friends are out of a job now. People aren't working like they used to, and they don't want secretaries

The subprime butterfly had flapped its wings and triggered a global hurricane.

only when savers can put their money in reliable banks that it can be channelled from the idle to the industrious.

Or, to reassure the bond market, does it cut expenditures in some other area, upsetting voters or vested interests? Or does it try to reduce the deficit by raising taxes?