Monetary Quotes - Page 7

• As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Zero, Work, Motherhood

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than it would have been by bad monetary policy.

  Milton Friedman

  United States, Great Depression, Made

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Welfare is monetary methadone.

  Adam Carolla

  Welfare, Methadone

  "Parker Spitzer" with Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, edition.cnn.com. November 5, 2010.

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• The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

  Sheldon Richman

  Government, Financial, Absence

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• The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition and absolutely no hope of supporting himself by his endeavors. If Bobby Fischer came to me for advice, I certainly would not discourage him - as if anyone could - but I would try to make it positively clear that he will never have any money from chess, live a monk-like existence and know more rejection than any artist ever has, struggling to be known and accepted.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Depressing, Struggle, Artist

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• Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.

  Florence Luscomb

  Real, Economic, Monopoly

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• Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

  Gordon Brown

  Years, Discipline, Together

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• ... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

  Warren Buffett

  Important, Fiscal Policy, Investing

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• With millions of people creating songs and uploading them to the web internationally, most artists know they need to dismantle the monetary barrier between themselves and the listener or they simply wont be heard.

  Josh Garrels

  Song, Artist, Creating

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com

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• I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.

  Paul Krugman

  Fiscal Policy, Economy, Monetary Policy

  "Paul Krugman on Debt, but Are Soaring Interest Rates Running Against Him?". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. May 29, 2013.

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• I don't want to give too much away, but something horrible happens in 1977. That was also the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. I remember this jubilee. I remember receiving a commemorative coin from the school. I think it was a fifty pence piece. That was its monetary value, but it was not a normal fifty pence piece, and it would have been strange to try and use it in a shop.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Queens, School, Thinking

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• The economic union - creating a big common market, like the United States, so that you can compete across borders. There are common rules, regulations, and simplification, and that is still a good reason, too. When they put their monetary union together, that created a rigidity that made it hard for currency fluctuations. They don't really have a solution to that.

  Jamie Dimon

  Creating, Together, United States

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are monetary.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Matter, Young

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Debate, Politician, Monetary Policy

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• The position of EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs could be combined with the office of Euro Group chairman. That job would be a great challenge for anyone who assumed it. On the one hand, he would have to make proposals. On the other hand, he would have to negotiate compromises with his European counterparts.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Jobs, Hands, Office

  "Europe Will Either Succeed or Fail Together". Interview with Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. July 16, 2012.

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• The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Europe, Unions, Results

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• Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual self-reliance and energy, causes want and poverty and, in the end, breeds tyranny and oppression.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Self, Political, Gold

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• I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Long, Debt, Unions

  "Europe Will Either Succeed or Fail Together". Interview with Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. July 16, 2012.

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• For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Generations, Unions, My Generation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Europe, Ideas, Effort

  "Europe Will Either Succeed or Fail Together". Interview with Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. July 16, 2012.

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• I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Mean, Generosity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a firm believer in the monetary union.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Unions, Firm, Believer

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We do not interpret bitcoin's popularity as having a relationship with the public's view of the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy

  Janet Yellen

  Views, Bitcoin, Popularity

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• The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation. With a deadly combination of arrogance and ruthlessness, they take their sledgehammers to fragile, interdependent, historically complex societies and devastate them, all under the fluttering banner of 'reform'.

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, Organization, Arrogance

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• The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Writing, Fighting, Stories

  Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), January 10, 2005.

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