Fixed Income Quotes

• To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

  Elbert Hubbard

  Income, Stomach, Fixed

  Elbert Hubbard (1917). “In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage”

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• In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain, and still worse losers are the people (e.g., those on fixed incomes such as annuities, interest, or pensions) who never receive the new money.

  Murray Rothbard

  People, Liberty, Events

  "The Case Against the Fed" by Murray Rothbard, mises.org. June 5, 2009.

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• Today, its expensive prescription medications burdening seniors on fixed incomes with thousands of dollars in yearly out-of-pocket costs.

  Jim Gerlach

  Senior, Pockets, Dollars

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• How many elderly people you see have to leave the house they've had their whole life because their fixed income and their property taxes keep rising every year and they can't afford to stay there. And nobody gives a crap about it, and they're booted out, they have to leave their homes.

  Jesse Ventura

  Home, Elderly, Years

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Venture capital has peaked in terms of its appetite, in terms of how much money it wants to put in. So now private equity funds are piling in. Primarily because interest rates are virtually zero so there's no fixed income play and they're not moving around.

  Kevin Kinsella

  Zero, Moving, Play

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

  Janet Jackson

  Trying, Income, Fixed

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• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Income

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx (pp. 809 - 810), 1857-1858.

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• Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

  John F. Kerry

  Senior, Poverty, Income

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". John F. Kerry at debate with George W. Bush Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

  Virginia Woolf

  Income, Purses, Bitterness

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.587, Wordsworth Editions

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