Quotes About Commodities

The greatest change was the increasing importance of commodities to Russia's leading businessmen, not only oil but also aluminum, nickel, and steel.

Wise also stated that the Nazis were paying bounties for Jewish corpses to be "processed into such war-vital commodities as soap, fats and fertilizer.

Just being able to trade financial commodities is a serious limitation because financial commodities represent only a tiny fraction of the reality of the real commodity exposure picture. We need to be active in the underlying physical commodity markets in order to understand and make prices.

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

Let the market, not politicians, determine the flow of rice, oil and other commodities. Lower, more stable prices will ensue.

It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

What we have to do is trap them into consumerism. Carry out enough propaganda and teasers and so on to make freed slaves feel they've got to have these commodities. They go to the company store and they get them, they're in debt, and pretty soon they're trapped—the slave economy's back.

Why are we so desperate to escape the material world? Is it really so bleak? Or could it be, rather, that we have made it bleak: obscured its vibrant mystery with our ideological blinders, severed its infinite connectedness with our categories, suppressed its spontaneous order with our pavement, reduced its infinite variety with our commodities, shattered its eternity with our time-keeping, and denied its abundance with our money system?

tomatoes, corn, and chile peppers, found lives outside the Mexican diet and came to define other cuisines. And then there's the two filched foods: vanilla and chocolate, indisputably Mexican, beloved by almost all, creators of fortunes for nearly everyone but their motherland.

Our records are commodities. We're looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

In commodities, when prices go up, demand goes down. In stocks, when prices go up, demand goes up.

unlike all other commodities under capitalism, the "unique" commodity labor power is singular in the sense that it is not produced capitalistically.

There is no free market for oil.

In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.

Quality wine, Scotch, and coffee had been the three irreplaceable commodities after the death of Old Earth.

Xi Jinping's first stop on his first foreign trip as president in 2013 was Moscow. China became Russia's largest trading partner. The respective roles were very clear. China provided manufactures, consumer goods, and finance; Russia, oil, gas, coal, and other commodities—and geopolitical alignment.

Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than the natural need of humanity or of any living being.

We are putting value in the things that really are not valuable, things like commodities or disposable stuff that can bought, but the rainforest has been undervalued, because the value shouldn't be in the trees that you take out; it's should be with leaving the trees to preserve the life system that sustains life on the planet.

The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.