“The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.” CountryEconomyGrowingDirectBasesInvestmentProductionsEastJapanAsianImportsAccelerateAsian Countries Author:Toshihiko Fukui
“Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.” FirstsImportantEconomyDirectFinancialArticlesCreedsMinorsGreat ArtTaxationControversyIndirectDirect And Indirect Author:William E. Gladstone
“One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world.” WorldOrderEconomyGrowingCapitalismDirectThreatAround The WorldStabilityCapability Author:Herbert Schiller
“But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular case we are now examining, the growth of Capitalism and its increasing proletariat, is the centralization of irresponsible control over the lives of men: the putting power over the proletariat into the hands of a few who can direct the loans of currency and credit without which that proletariat could not be fed and clothed and maintained in work.” MenWisdomHandsPoliticsGrowthCasesEconomyWorstParticularCapitalismDirectCreditChiefsCodeLiberalismFedsEthicalCurrencyDefectsImmoralLoanIrresponsibleExaminingProletariatUsuryCentralization Book:The Crisis Of Civilization Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that automation will leave all men free to search and research... Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.” MenMeanPoliticsRealizingHoursWealthLeaderEconomyIndustryResearchLaborDirectBasesCompetitionLiberalismBuyingWagesAutomationMultiplyingBuying Power Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but do not own / or who own, but do not work; or who distribute, as politicians do, but do not produce. The danger of the "slave state" disappears in ratio to the numbers of people who own property and admit its attendant responsibilities under God. They can call their souls their own because they own and administer something other than their souls. Thus they are free.” PeopleSoulStatesWisdomPoliticsNumbersResponsibilityEconomyDemocracyDangerProduceBecomingCitizensPoliticianDirectPropertySlaveDisappearLiberalismFlirtingRatios Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.” NeedsAmericaPoliticsEconomyCenturyDirectThreatClimateClimate Change21st CenturyInfrastructure Author:Barack Obama
“There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money.” PeopleReasonFormUsedPayEconomyProductsDirectAccountsProducersConsumersNo ReasonMassiveUnitsAdequatePaymentTransactionsComputingCentral Banks Author:Mervyn King
“5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.” NumbersEconomyPromiseDirectTransformationInvestmentCurves Author:Baldwin Spencer