Quotes About Markets

We're trying to exploit people's reaction, which is embedded in prices and leads to trends.

Markets may initially trend for fundamental reasons, but prices overshoot by ludicrous amounts. At some point, prices go up today simply because they went up yesterday. Michael Platt

commodities, currencies, interest rates, credit, and equities.1

It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.

Equity Capital Markets was known for being where pretty, but not pretty enough for Investor Relations, girls and guys who couldn't cut it in other groups landed.

More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.

The previous holders of these jobs not only dealt with fewer challengers and competitors, but they also had fewer constraints—in the form of citizen activism, global markets, and media scrutiny—on using the power they had.

With their ability to move billions of dollars at the speed of light away from a country whose economic policies they distrust, hedge funds are just one of the many financial institutions whose

the form of citizen activism, global markets, and media scrutiny

Three conditions are necessary for a slave society: private, concentrated landownership, sufficient development of commodity production and markets, and unavailability of an internal labor supply.

Without a visible hand, markets did not at any time, and do not now, magically pave the way for the most talented to be rewarded; the well connected were and are preferentially treated.

Markets spread the technology of machine tools throughout the world, but markets did not create it. Centralized government, in the form of the U.S. Army, was the inventor of the modern machine age.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

If markets change then so must brands.

Visibility politics are compatible with capitalism's relentless appetite for new markets and with the most self-satisfying ideologies of the United States: you are welcome here as long as you are productive. The production and reproduction of visibility are part of the labor of the reproduction of capitalism.