Quotes About Markets

Marx's critique of free markets and free trade can shed as much devastating light on our own actually existing capitalism as it did for the capitalism of Marx's own time and place.

Finance capital increasingly looked abroad for higher rates of return.

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

My goal is first of all to promote a public debate about where markets serve the public good and where they don't belong. That's my first goal.

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

You have to have great design to be competitive in today's markets.

When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce.

GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.

both tariff rates and domestic charges for the use of railroad freight blatantly discriminated against the South, impeding its ability to grow and compete. The rates charged for shipping goods along the nation's railways had for decades been rigged to protect Northern markets from Southern goods.

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.

The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful one. Socialism is about who gets the goods and how. Socialism objects to markets because markets allocate resources in ways socialists believe to be unfair on both counts: both the who and the how.

Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter than people. That's how I started. I watched the stock market, how equities reacted to change in levels of economic activity, and I could understand how price signals worked and how to forecast them.