Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital – in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

The real minimum wage is zero.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

No one saw the recession coming.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.