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Constraining that freedom was both unjust and stupid, as it would destroy the entrepreneurial drive that liberates us all from poverty and need.
Yanis Varoufakis • Another Now
"To cure its addiction to debts, the United States has to re-establish the common sense principle that one should live within its means."
Michael Green • In Gold We Trust? The Future of Money in an Age of Uncertainty (Kindle Single)
The key to financial health is getting everyone to make financial decisions as if they were spending their own money out of their own checkbook. Too many people spend a “budget” of someone else's money. Witness the spending sprees at the end of each year.
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
We have gotten so used to the world of usury-money that we mistake many of its effects for basic laws of economics or human nature.
Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
the ability of portfolio investors to move money unfettered across national borders is a matter of controversy among economists, much more so than is the freedom of trade in goods. With regard to this aspect of global capitalism, the Argentine crisis underlines the need for major repair. It points inexorably to the conclusion that government
... See morePaul Blustein • And the Money Kept Rolling in (And Out): Wall Street, the Imf, And the Bankrupting of Argentina: Wall Street, the IMF and the Bankrupting of Argentina
That armor was as strong as ever. The Coinage Act of 1873 pleased bondholders and bankers, the well-to-do, by making gold the monetary standard, completely eliminating silver as a standard. But farmers and working people, debtors of all types—“those who labor under all the hardships of life,” in Madison’s words—were infuriated by the “Crime of
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