The old saying holds. Owe your banker $1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him $1 million and the position is reversed.
- John Maynard Keynes - Topics: Debt.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations - six if one went to Harvard.
- Edgar R. Fiedler - Topics: Economist.
There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know. Then again, there is a third type of investor -the investment professional, who indeed knows that he or she doesn't know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.
- William Bernstein - Topics: Investing.
There were over 379 articles written, prematurely declaring the end of Bitcoin. Not only did Bitcoin survive, it thrived, becoming the top performing asset of the decade. The naysayers were proved wrong and we learned an important lesson about human nature: most big breakthroughs are contrarian ideas that people dismiss and ridicule at the start.
- Brian Armstrong - Topics: Cryptocurrency.
Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions.
- Barry Asmus - Topics: Economist.
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Monetary Policy, Debt.
How can anyone in his right mind think that our economic sluggishness is due to insufficient deficits and a timid Fed? Plenty do. It is a case of denial of an obvious fact: the entire Keynesian/government approach to stimulus has been a catastrophic failure.
- Robert P. Murphy - Topics: Monetary Policy.
The federal government is sending each of us a $600 rebate. If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, the money goes to China. If we spend it on gasoline it goes to the Arabs. If we buy a computer, it will go to India. If we purchase fruits and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. If we purchase a good car, it will go to Germany and Japan. If we purchase useless crap, it will go to Taiwan. In short, none of it will help the American economy. The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it on beer, since this isthe only product still produced in the US. I've been doing my part...
- Marc Faber - Topics: Government.
I made a killing in the stock market. My broker lost all my money, so I killed him.
- Jim Loy - Topics: Broker, Stock Market.
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
- Herbert Stein - Topics: Stock Market.
There are only three ways a smart person can go broke: liquor, ladies and leverage.
- Charlie Munger - Topics: Trader.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
- Ronald Reagan - Topics: Tax, Government.
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