Economic Quotes - Page 9

• Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

  William Feather

  Mean People, Waste, Injustice

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• Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Capitalist Economy, Liberty, Libertarian

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• The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

  Mike Pence

  War, Reality, Hiking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

  Ezra Pound

  Inability, Literature, Pounds

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.196, New Directions Publishing

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• No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Peace, War

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

  Ed Rendell

  Beauty, Impact, People

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• While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

  Amartya Sen

  Philosophy, Two, Unions

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• The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

  Shirley Temple

  Educational, Done, World

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• I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

  Lech Walesa

  Moving, Politics, Economics

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• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Renaissance, Gains

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• History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Views, Psychology, Als

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• But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Government, Giving

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.18, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

  Ben Bernanke

  Business, Support, Principles

  "Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here". Ben Bernanke's Remarks Before the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. November 21, 2002.

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• That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Mother, Money, Fun

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• Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

  Ben Bernanke

  Change, Technology, Years

  "Letting the air out". www.economist.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Including everyone in the economic, wealth-creating life of the nation is today the best way for Labor (Australian Labor Party) to meet its twin goals of raising national prosperity and creating a fair and decent society.

  Julia Gillard

  Party, Creating, Australia

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• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  Iris Chang

  Hard Times, Racism, Racist

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• Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Balance, Comeback, Insult

  Raoul Vaneigem, Donald Nicholson-Smith (2012). “The Revolution of Everyday Life”, p.15, PM Press

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• You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

  Milton Friedman

  America, World, Economy

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• Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

  Gracie Allen

  Integrity, Work, Personality

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• Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

  Denis Waitley

  Time, Money, Careers

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• An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

  Alan Greenspan

  Freedom, Issues, Gold

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.89, Penguin

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• Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Keys, Financial, Delaware

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• I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

  Bob Hawke

  Stupid, Thinking, Government

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• Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

  Sam Ewing

  Funny, Birthday, Hilarious

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