Quotes About Market

desempleo episódico —a veces masivo, como sucedió en la Gran Depresión— y una contaminación tan nociva en ciertos lugares que el aire era irrespirable fueron solo dos de las «pruebas» más obvias de que los mercados por sí solos no necesariamente funcionan bien.

Los legisladores deberían centrarse siempre en cualquier mercado con rentas excesivas, pues son un indicador de que la economía podría funcionar más eficientemente: en realidad, la explotación inherente a estas termina debilitando la economía. Una batalla exitosa contra la búsqueda de renta redunda en redirigir los recursos hacia la creación de riqueza.

Quinto, los programas de Gobierno para conseguir una prosperidad compartida deberían enfocarse a la vez en la distribución de los ingresos de mercado —lo que a veces se denomina predistribución— y la redistribución, los ingresos de que disfrutan los individuos tras los impuestos y pagos.

Quinto, los programas de Gobierno para conseguir una prosperidad compartida deberían enfocarse a la vez en la distribución de los ingresos de mercado

today we live in an economy where a few firms can rake in massive amounts of profits for themselves and persist unchecked in their dominant position for years and years.

More than 80 years ago, John Maynard Keynes explained why market economies often have persistent unemployment and taught us how government could maintain the economy at or near full employment.

The irony is that just as markets started delivering more unequal outcomes, tax policy asked less of the top. The top marginal tax rate was lowered from 70 percent under Carter to 28 percent under Reagan; it went up to 39.6 percent under Clinton and down finally to 35 percent under George W. Bush.54 This reduction was supposed to lead to more work and savings, but it didn't.55

In a world of globalization, creating market value had become entirely separated from creating employment. There was no reason to believe that giving more money to America's wealthy would lead to more investment in the United States:

A central thesis of chapters 2 and 3 is that market failures—and the failure of government to circumscribe them—play a key role in explaining inequality in America. At the top there are rents (such as monopoly rents); at the bottom there is underinvestment in human capital. Hidden subsidies that distort the market and rules of the game that give an upper hand to those at the top have compounded the problems.

Fair rules and competition within a marketlike ecology of states promoted capital investment, innovation, and rational cooperation in a context of low transaction costs.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

One Way to think of the market ideology and the empire is that it produces alienation and loss of human vitality. The culture flows from the assumption that the accumulation of commodities will make us safe and happy.

we may consider the sabbath as an alternative to the endless demands of economic reality, more specifically the demands of market ideology that depend, as Adam Smith had already seen, on the generation of needs and desires that will leave us endlessly "rest-less," inadequate, unfulfilled, and in pursuit of that which may satiate desire.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. (Quoting Adam Smith)

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Capitalism has proved incapable of transcending fundamental weaknesses such as underutilization of productive capacity, the persistence of a permanent sector of unemployed, and periodic economic crises related to the concept of "market"—which is concerned with people's ability to pay rather than their need for commodities. (11)

The world of capitalism is, essentially, a roller coaster, what goes up, must come down.

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

I make no attempt to forecast the general market -- my efforts are devoted to finding undervalued securities.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Time in the market is better than timing the market.