economics Quotes

If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.