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Source: Unbiased Investor: Reduce Financial Stress and Keep More of Your Money

“It does not matter if things become expensive; it matters when purchasing power stays beyond power.”

“The absolute impoverishment of the working class and other toiling masses is expressed in the continuous decline of real wages [purchasing power] - that is, in the reduction of the amount of material values which the working people can buy with their money income”

Purchasing Power Real Wages

Book:The Basic Economic Law of Modern Capitalism

Source: The Basic Economic Law of Modern Capitalism

“No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt.”

Enough Class Economy Middle Capable Function Deeper Debt Middle Class Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Robert Reich

“Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.”

Way Needs Stories Joy Share Inspire Exercise Consumers Volunteer Inspire Others Purchasing Those In Need Purchasing Power

Author:Blake Mycoskie

“Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well as the various forms of nonwage property income to the owners of capital. In itself, it is no more responsible for maldistribution of purchasing power than the science of bookkeeping is responsible for bankruptcy.”

Wells Wisdom Form Politics Economy Labor Responsible Property Various Income Liberalism Owners Wages Private Property Bankruptcy Electronics Purchasing Purchasing Power Bookkeeping

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners, the same conduits would broadly irrigate the economy with purchasing power.”

Ifs Wisdom Politics Economy Property Saving Liberalism Owners Savings Private Property Reservoirs Purchasing Purchasing Power

Book:Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“It may seem strange, but Congress has never developed a set of goals for guiding Federal Reserve policy. In founding the System, Congress spoke about the country's need for "an elastic currency." Since then, Congress has passed the Full Employment Act, declaring its general intention to promote "maximum employment, production, and purchasing power." But it has never directly counseled the Federal Reserve.”

“There is another method of obtaining money... It does not presuppose the existence of accumulated results of previous development, and hence may be considered as the only one which is available in strict logic. This method of obtaining money is the creation of purchasing power by banks. The form it takes is immaterial.”

May Doe Form Politics Results Existence Economy Creation Development Logic Method Available Liberalism Strict Obtaining Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.”

Source: The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle

“The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.”

Ifs Littles Easy Virtue Cost Manners Wisest Politeness Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.”

“I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.”

“BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.”

Want India Increase Committed Income Village Farmers Agriculture Governance Purchasing Purchasing Power Bjp

Author:Narendra Modi

“Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.”

“The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut the purchasing power of pensions about 45% in 30 years. The greatest danger of rising prices is from wages rising faster than output per man-hour.... Whether the nation succeeds in providing adequate security for retired workers depends in large measure upon the wage policies of trade unions.”

“That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have.”

Jobs America Growth Economy Focus Effects Foundation Dollars Convinced Strongest Inflation Purchasing Guarding Solid Foundation Purchasing Power Deflation Job Growth

Author:Kevin Brady

“Corporations don't create jobs, customers do. So when all the economic gains go to the top, as they're doing now, the vast majority of Americans don't have enough purchasing power to buy the things corporations want to sell - which means businesses stop creating enough jobs.”

Want Mean Enough Jobs Economic Creating Gains Majority Sells Customers Corporations Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Robert Reich

“Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.”

Ifs Real Facts Land Shadow Infinite Credit Fixed Fund Quantity Urban Estates Instability Interfaces Purchasing Constrain Purchasing Power

Author:Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

“Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.”

“In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all too often, cannot afford), rather than the one we prefer. We are only as free as our purchasing power permits. Even many wealthy people today select a residence mainly to impress others with their status. Lacking a true sense of self worth, many live to impress others.”

People Self Today House Car Lifestyle Self Worth Wealthy Permit Lacking Impress Select Sense Of Self Monetary Purchasing Residence Monetary System Purchasing Power

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.”

“A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.”

Real Term Risk Investment Starting Preservation Measurement Starting Point Purchasing Enhancement Purchasing Power

Author:David Dreman

“It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!”

Presses Productions Printing Purchasing Printing Press Purchasing Power

Author:Peter Schiff

“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.”

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Author:Roger Babson

“Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.”

Writing Economy Willing Debt Steady Drains Shrinking Purchasing Purchasing Power Deflation

Author:Michael Hudson

“I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.”

People Needs Should Guy Like Me Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Warren Buffett

“Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.”

“Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs of the poor. And the prices of rice, bread and beans play a small role in calculating PPPs even though they play a huge role in meeting the consumption needs of the poor. So the World Bank's method of comparing and converting everything at general purchasing power parities into US dollars is highly distorting within an exercise whose purpose it is to determine whether households are or are not capable of meeting their basic consumption needs.”

“The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.”

Fall Finance Purchasing Rise And Fall Purchasing Power

Book:Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition

Source: Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition

“Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.”

Enough Choices Moral Huge Consumers Shopping Consumerism Purchasing Purchasing Power Moral Choices

Author:Anita Roddick

“Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.”

“Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.”

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Author:Raoul Vaneigem

“As long as we place millions of Indians at the canter of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self realization we are on the right track. For India can grow, prosper, flourish only if they grow, prosper, flourish. We cannot grow by any esoteric strategies. Our purchasing power, our economic strength, our marketplace all depends on the prosperity of our people.”

“Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having ascertained the exact shop, coat and price, Ms. Lawrence returned from her lunch break wearing that coat, apparently in order to flaunt and emphasize her greater purchasing power and, by inference, her superior status.”

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Author:Sheridan Morley

“If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.”

Ifs World Increase Quantity Units Monetary New World Order Purchasing Purchasing Power

Book:Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

“The market insures that any quantity of money is capable of performing all the work required of a medium of exchange by adjusting its purchasing power to the underlying conditions of supply and demand.”

Conditions Demand Capable Mediums Performing Quantity Adjusting Purchasing Supply And Demand Purchasing Power

Author:Joseph Salerno

“People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.”

People Ifs Should Government Should Have Financial Assets Purchasing Valve Purchasing Power

Author:Peter Schiff

“Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.”

Government Form Citizens Taxation Printing Robbing Purchasing Purchasing Power Printing Money

Author:Peter Schiff

“The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.”

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Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.”

Products Summer Oil Consumers Cents Gross Reducing Purchasing Purchasing Power Gross Domestic Product

Author:Martin Feldstein

“Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.”

Ifs Fall Money Higher Faster Unemployment Wages Pension Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Bernard Baruch

“Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?”

Values Water Moral Farmers Milk Wallets Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Ron Paul

“If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.”

Source: On the Manipulation of Money and Credit

“Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.”

Concerned Regard Useless Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.”

Benefits Investing Size Guarantees Cash Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Alan Greenspan

“The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.”

Progress Higher Concepts Income Making Money Units Dependence Inflation Monetary Purchasing Purchasing Power

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.”

Ifs War Standards Europe Down And Civil War Print Standards Of Living Zimbabwe Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Marc Faber

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