A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

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

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

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.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

The real minimum wage is zero.

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.

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.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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.

You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

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

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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

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.

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

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.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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

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

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

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

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.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Teach a parrot the terms ‚supply and demand‘ and you’ve got an economist.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

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

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.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

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.

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.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.