“I'm a secret nonmember of the establishment. This isn't a grubby kind of revolution I'm talking about. This isn't Che Guevara stuff. I don't want to live on berries in the woods - I don't think anybody does.” ThinkingWantKindDoeWisdomPoliticsStuffSecretTalkingEconomyRevolutionWoodsLiberalismEstablishmentBerries Author:Louis O. Kelso
“Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.” WayHumansStuffEconomySuccessfulHuman NatureFunctionCorruptionCharacteristicsFraudMinimumEmbezzlement Author:Alan Greenspan
“Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff - what I sometimes call the take-make-waste model - the economy as it is will kill the planet.” IfsWaySometimesStuffEconomyPlanetsWasteModelsProductionsExtraction Author:Annie Leonard
“I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.” WritingTryingMadeRealEndsStatesFeelingsSpiritArtistFeltStuffEconomyFansHugeMessagesPerformancesUglyPoeticStay TrueDead EndsOld TimeAmericanaOld Time Music Author:Will Sheff
“Asset bubbles have happened even without not-so-easy money. And, in a depressed economy, where alternative uses of money are not great, people are going to bid up the prices of profitable corporations and stuff like that.” PeopleUseEasyStuffEconomyHappenedAlternativesCorporationsAssetsBubblesProfitableGreat PeopleEasy Money Author:Paul Krugman