One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
- Ron Paul - Topics: Tax, Government.
I believe the very best money is made at the market turns. Everyone says you get killed trying to pick tops and bottoms and you make all your money by playing the trend in the middle. Well for twelve years I have been missing the meat in the middle but I have made a lot of money at tops and bottoms.
- Paul Tudor Jones - Topics: Stock Market, Trader, Wall Street.
Austria was successful in pushing through policies that are popular all over the world. Austria has the most impressive records in five lines: she increased public expenditures, she increased wages, she increased social benefits, she increased bank credits, she increased consumption. After all these achievements she was on the verge of ruin.
- Fritz Machlup - Topics: Monetary Policy, Socialism.
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other. If government spending is financed by borrowing from the commercial banks, it means credit expansion and inflation.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Debt, Government, Monetary Policy, Tax.
Successful trading is always an emotional battle for the speculator, not an intelligent battle.
- Jesse Livermore - Topics: Trader, Stock Market.
The correct conclusion in my view is that we need to be pre-emptive in avoiding these types of problems in the future. Monetary policy should not be aimed at cleaning up a mess, but leaning against the wind to avoid the mess in the future.
- Stephen Roach - Topics: Monetary Policy.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux, and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
- George Soros - Topics: Investing, Stock Market.
The longer the boom of inflationary bank credit continues, the greater the scope of malinvestments in capital goods, and the greater the need for liquidation of these unsound investments. When the credit expansion stops, reverses, or even significantly slows down, the malinvestments are revealed.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Monetary Policy.
Europe is just like the sinking Titanic: not even first class passengers can save themselves.
- Giulio Tremonti - Topics: Debt, Eurocrisis.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
- Thomas Jefferson - Topics: Fiat Currency, Inflation.
The two enemies of the people are criminals and Government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
- Thomas Jefferson - Topics: Government.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
- George Orwell - Topics: Denial.
