“Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.” MindHas BeensArtIdeasAgeSpiritualValuesEconomicActivityDegreesTradeProductionsIntenseRemarkableExceptionRegionsManifestSpiritual ValuesLocality Author:Paul Valery
“A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples,throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen.” ValuesPoorObjectsEuropeTradeFranceComparisonGoodsConsumedCottonSuperbLettucePineapples Author:Jean-Baptiste Say
“Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.” TodayValuesSocialGrowingSecurityCreatingAccountsStressTradeObligationCurrencySocial SecurityDeficitMedicaid Author:George Noory
“First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.” FirstsEndsMomentsMightRunningValuesBitsLandTradeSpeciesApplicationSiteThreatenedNegotiationEcologicalAssessmentBiodiversityDevelopersRemnantsLodgesTrade Offs Author:Frank Sartor
“Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.” WorldValuesCultureCitiesBuildingRaisesTradeTallTwinsTowersMonumentWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterTwin TowersTall Buildings Book:The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century Source: The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century