Quotes About Market

El poder de mercado, a la hora de la verdad, es excluyente y, por tanto, anticompetitivo; es decir, inhibe la competencia. Pero ni siquiera las empresas que ya ocupan un puesto dentro de la ciudadela, protegidas por barreras que limitan la entrada de nuevos rivales, tienen garantizada una vida fácil, ni siquiera la supervivencia.

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.

y el dinero. Lo conocía a fondo: el ritmo sin descanso, el olor, el sabor a sangre amarga, el acecho furtivo, el lenguaje que se hablaba en el mercado.

Share brokers are rogues . They shut their web server at the time of market fall to get commission from companies

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

We conclude, therefore, that determining the supply of money, like all other goods, is best left to the free market. Aside from the general moral and economic advantages of freedom over coercion, no dictated quantity of money will do the work better, and the free market will set the production of gold in accordance with its relative ability to satisfy the needs of consumers, as compared with all other productive goods.10

The main drawback of the government sponsored transcontinentals was that they were not funded through market savings but instead government loans and land grants, and were thus not disciplined by profit and loss. By granting subsidies, the government diverted resources away from where consumers would have spent their money (and hence valued more highly).

I believe that fractional-reserve banking is disastrous both for the morality and for the fundamental bases and institutions of the market economy.

A market boom based entirely on capital gains is merely a form of pyramid selling.

Unemployment will progress beyond the "frictional" stage and become really severe and lasting only if wage rates are kept artificially high and are prevented from falling. If wage rates are kept above the free-market level that clears the demand for and supply of labor, laborers will remain permanently unemployed.

si realmente queremos mejorar el mundo, debemos mirar más allá del gobierno. Las soluciones reales no están en el poder, sino en el mercado.

At any rate, the correct version of Gresham's law is simply an application of the theory of price control causing shortages to money, with the two moneys operating side-by-side.

People are sold their own weaknesses, their sweets, on the market and the exchange of vices, instincts and internal flaws.

An entrepreneur is the first enemy of capitalism.

The consumer has been given no choice, but to keep buying and consuming non-stop.

The unity of Africa can be achieved through common market, unions, monetary and political federations.

Unlike Adam Smith's invisible hand of the free market, Wilson's dark hand represented the dangers of an unregulated economy: downward mobility and the ruin of countless lives.26

The truth has always been a more complex commodity than the market can easily package and sell.

protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.

Economists have a term for these costs—a less reassuring one than Friedman's "neighborhood effects." They are "negative externalities": negative because they aren't beneficial and external because they fall outside the market system. Those who find this hard to accept attack the messenger, which is science.

A handful of economists in the late 1960s had realized that free market economics, focused as it was on consumption growth, was inherently destructive to the natural environment and to the ecosystems on which we all depend.

We took modest steps, and then did nothing to strengthen them as time went on, even as the science increasingly indicated that we needed to. We went on faith that the market would do its "magic.

And this brings us to the crux of our story, the pivot around which these diverse actors came together. The link that unites the tobacco industry, conservative think tanks, and the scientists in our story is the defense of the free market.

The billionaire investor George Soros has coined a term to describe this perspective: "free market fundamentalism." It is the belief not simply that free markets are the best way to run an economic system, but that free markets are the only way that will not ultimately destroy our other freedoms. "The doctrine of laissez-faire capitalism holds that the common good is best served by the uninhibited pursuit of self-interest,"36 Soros wrote.