“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.” PartyLibertyEconomicTaxesGainsAssumingDebtSpendingLibertarianTendenciesFixedExpensesLibertarianismPieFree MarketProperty RightsFallacyWealth Of Nations Book:Free to Choose: A Personal Statement Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
“State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.” StatesGovernmentPoliticalSocialEconomicActivityCapitalismGainsStrongerIntelligentSafetySpendingRegulationEmergenciesDominanceImplementationSafety NetGovernment Spending Author:Ian Bremmer
“In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.” GovernmentPoliticalOpportunityProcessSupportTaxesGainsSpendingEnterpriseExpensesNurtureDeficitAccumulationSubsidiesTax SystemDeficit Spending Author:Michael Parenti
“The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.” IfsKnowsWantLooksRealityInterestForgetEconomyFiguresGainsInvestmentRateSpendingProductivityConsumersInflationInterest RateRetailIndicatorsRetail Sales Author:Mark Skousen
“Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be spending time with your friends, running in a cross-country meet or just simply staring at the crashing ocean- that holds the key to discovering the meaning of life. I would rather be out enjoying these things than pondering them. We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable.” MayLittlesCountryRunningEnjoyAdventureKeysOceanGainsCrossesValuableSpendingStaringMeaning Of LifeEach DayLittle ThingsDiscoveringQuestsPonderingSpending Time Author:Jack Canfield
“What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?” IfsWarCareNationsMillionsCostThousandHundredGainsSpendingDiamondSteelGunpowderCost Of WarCocoa Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.” MayStillsDifferentProblemRunningScienceEnergyInterestWaterNatureNaturalDifferencesDevelopmentPureWasteGainsResourcesAccountsSpendingLegacyFuelGlobesWater PowerNatural Energy Author:Frederick Soddy
“It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside, which Keegan will soon discover, is the law of diminishing returns in a league that is now the richest in the world. The type of multi-million-pound investment that bankrolled the first Newcastle revival under Keegan is now two-a-penny. Buying success just isn't as easy as it used to be. The Premiership's paradox is that the more money there is, the more the art of management gains in value.” WorldFirstsArtTwoLawUsedValuesEasyMillionsFootballTypeReturnGainsManagementInvestmentCommittedSpendingUsed To BeCertaintySoccerAnalysisLeagueBuyingPoundsParadoxMore MoneyMikeRevivalPenniesNewcastleAshleyDiminishing Returns Author:Pete Gill