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“High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.”

Interest Class Focus Capitalism Rate Finance Revenue Interest Rate Parasites Columnists

Author:Linda McQuaig

“I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.”

Want Trying Mean I Can Audience Highest Capitalism Rate Profit Advertising

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Now, you might say – “But why should we pay people for doing what they’re supposed to do?” It’s a fair question – but think of it this way: Every other anti-poverty program that’s been tried has failed to get the national poverty rate below 11 percent... Why shouldn’t we experiment with a program built around the one strategy that has proven time and again to work wonders – capitalism?”

People Thinking Way Should Might Pay Wonder Poverty Percent Capitalism Built Fairs Program Strategy Rate Experiments Proven

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.”

Helping Social Economic Needed Capitalism Rate Imperialism Advancement Alarms Attainment Secured Surplus Social Systems Mobilization

Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

“We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.”

Opportunity Community Technology Effects Capitalism Rate Scales Valleys Unprecedented Silicon Positive Change Silicon Valley

Author:Justin Rosenstein

“A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs.”

“A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.”

Sound Interest Creation Capitalism Rate Credit Determined Saving Cherish Contracts Savings Interest Rate Central Banks Central Banking

Book:Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

Source: Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

“Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.”

May Cases Virtue Capitalism Paid Rewards Rate

Author:Kenneth Arrow

“High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors.”

Has Beens Interest Class Focus Capitalism Rate Financial Favour Revenue Interest Rate Creditors Financial System

Author:Linda McQuaig

“A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.”

Way Two Interest Poor Rich Policy Capitalism Rewards Rate Inequality Unemployment Two Ways Interest Rate

Book:Shooting the hippo: death by deficit and other Canadian myths

Source: Shooting the hippo: death by deficit and other Canadian myths

“When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.”

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy.”

Believe Reason Today Political Levels Accepting Opinion Support Democracy Commitment Capitalism Crosses Rate Suits Alternatives Triumph Apathy Polls High Level Intrusion Opinion Polls

Author:Mark Mazower

“The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced”

Pay Promise Capitalism Western Rate Rising Cheques

Author:Jeremy Paxman