“It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.” TryingShowsRealityGovernmentActionEconomyFateEconomicExampleInterventionFashionableRecessionsRailGovernment InterventionGreat Recession Author:Mark Zandi
“State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.” MayStatesFormPoliticalInterestEconomicInvolvedEconomicsDirectManagementProductionsAriseSocialismFascismInitiativeLackingAssistanceInterventionInsufficient Author:Benito Mussolini
“If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.” IfsWayEarthOrderSocialConsciousnessEconomicEvolutionHigherInnovationHarmonyEnvironmentalPatternsFavorsScalesMassiveCollapseInterventionBreakdownConvergenceEnhancement Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard
“The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always been and is guided in its relations with other countries by the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefits, peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation.” CountryPrinciplesRightsEconomicIntegrityBenefitsRelationIndependenceUnionsAffairPeacefulInternalsMutualCooperationSovietAggressionOther CountriesSovereigntySoviet UnionInterventionCoexistenceMutual RespectTerritorialPeaceful CoexistenceInternal AffairsMutual BenefitEconomic Cooperation Author:Kliment Voroshilov
“The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.” StatesUseWealthStruggleEconomicCenturyMovementPeriodsAuthorityPropertySpreadTitlesRealmsSpheresRegimesExploitationSovereignMonopolyInterventionRoyaltyTwentieth CenturyNineteenth CenturyAuthoritarianismFeesEncroachmentStruggle For Freedom Author:Elgin Groseclose
“I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.” NeedsBelieveRightsEconomicMilitaryEqualApproachStrategyDon't BelieveReformInterventionEqual RightsComprehensiveDemocratizationMilitary InterventionEconomic Reforms Author:Zalmay Khalilzad
“Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of its clandestine services, to overthrow governments that refused to protect American interests. Each time, it cloaked its intervention in the rhetoric of national security and liberation. In most cases, however, it acted mainly for economic reasons-specifically to establish, promote and defend the right of Americans to do business around the world without interference.” WorldFirstsStatesReasonGovernmentUsedInterestUnitedCasesUnited StatesEconomicCenturySecurityMilitaryProtectTwentiesAround The WorldLiberationRhetoricNational SecurityInterventionTwentieth CenturyInterferenceMilitary PowerClandestine Book:Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq Source: Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
“This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us, as we are constantly told, but rather to sap our economic vitality and undermine our civil and economic liberties.” WarLibertyEconomicMilitaryLessonsProtectPreparationVitalityInterventionSapMilitary Intervention Author:Robert Higgs
“Unfortunately, liberals didn't stop with welfare-statism. They also turned to economic regulations, not understanding that such interventions, again, harmed the very people they were supposedly truing to help - the poor and destitute.” PeopleHelpingUnderstandingPoorEconomicWelfareRegulationInterventionDestituteHelp The Poor Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.” WayEconomicBuildingStructurePlanningHungryRegulationInterventionTotalitarianismPower Hungry Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.” PeopleIfsWayWellsHas BeensSometimesPoliticalProcessDifficultDifferencesLossSimpleAnswersSuccessfulEconomicIraqTerrorismAfghanistanRegimesInterventionReconstructionRemovalKosovo Author:Tony Blair