“Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.” YearsLevelsEconomyStreetsDangerousWallPercentFinancialBillionsProductiveGamblingSpeculationDeficitFees Author:Bernie Sanders
“Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous” MenWorldYearsChildrenEnoughKidsTogetherFormPovertyMillionsEconomyWorstDangerousPercentMen And WomenLaborThirdsExtremesBillionsEngagedLabourRegionsUnemployedWorkforceExtreme PovertyChild LabourDecent Work Author:Juan Somavia
“The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.” PayEconomyDangerousHairGunBillsCongressHillsRhetoricTriggersAmerican Economy Author:Peter Welch
“We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.” MindStatesOrderPoliticsDifficultEnemyEconomyDangerousBearsAdvantageInstitutionsLiberalismIntroducingDoubtfulDefendersInnovatorsLukewarm Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.” MenMeanPersonsShowsWisdomHandsWantedSpiritPoliticsBornWealthCitiesEconomyDangerousBuildingOfficeAmbitionHighestLowsAccountsPropertyEntertainmentRichesFallenLiberalismRomeDaringDistributionInclinationCommonwealthImpetusDistribution Of WealthSumptuous Book:Greek and Roman Lives Source: Greek and Roman Lives
“There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.” SufferingPoliticsEconomyDangerousConvincedTheologyLiberalismSuperstitions Book:History as Literature and Other Essays Source: History as Literature and Other Essays
“There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."” PoliticsSinEconomyDangerousLiberalismUnforgivableUnforgivable Sin Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.” MenHumansGrowsHuman BeingsEconomyGrowing UpHeardCrazyDangerousMadOne ManCommunistSovietMilton Author:Mart Laar
“I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.” IdeasTogetherEconomyPlansDangerousUnionsBritainConcreteCurrencyBad IdeasBetter Together Author:Michelle Mone
“There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.” IfsWisdomHandsPoliticalPoliticsClassEconomyDangerousDrawsPropertyExperimentsLiberalismPolitical Power Book:Speeches and Forensic Arguments Source: Speeches and Forensic Arguments
“The recent trading environment has felt something like walking into a place and having a sense that something is wrong and dangerous but not knowing exactly what will happen or when. “QE Infinity” has so distorted the prices of stocks and bonds that nobody can possibly determine what the investing landscape would look like, or what the condition of the economy and financial system would be, in the absence of Fed bond-buying.” LooksHappensWould BeFeltEconomyKnowingEnvironmentConditionsDangerousWalkingInvestingFinancialDetermineAbsenceLandscapeBuyingFedsInfinityNot KnowingTradingFinancial System Author:Paul Singer
“Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.” WayEconomyDangerousHorsePlanningIslandsUrgesAssetsPollutionMagnificentDelightfulExpandingAirportsConstructiveTorontoDowntownSmogTrojansTrojan Horse Author:Jane Jacobs