“The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.” RealPresidentTermClassEconomyActivityOfficeCriminalsDistinctionExecutives80sRobberyShallownessClass DistinctionBank Robbery Author:Martha Plimpton
“Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black market economy where drugs fetch far greater prices than they would if legal.” IfsBlackEconomyGreaterDrugCriminalsArguingEnormousEnterpriseIllegalProfitableMarket EconomyFetch Author:James Morcan
“Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.” PeopleLooksWholeBigsGamesEconomyPiecesCrimeCriminalsInventionCorrections Author:Jerry Brown
“I do know enough about economics - and so do you - to understand that the 'stimulus program' of Barack Obama and his ravenous parasitic hordes, supposedly designed to 'repair' America's broken economy, reveals him to be unimaginably stupid, gibberingly insane, or simply the biggest, most barefaced criminal thug ever to occupy the White House. And that's saying a lot.” KnowsEnoughAmericaHouseWhiteEconomyStupidBrokenProgramEconomicsCriminalsInsaneBarackWhite HouseStimulusThugHorde Author:L. Neil Smith
“Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.” WritingStoriesEconomyCriminalsListsRemarkableFrighteningWarfareHarshVengeanceObjectivityStarksUnderstatement Author:Anthony Boucher