I believe that anyone who is intelligent, conscientious, and willing to put in the necessary time can be successful on Wall Street. As long as they realize the market is a business like any other business, they have a good chance to prosper.
- Jesse Livermore - Topics: Stock Market, Trader.
Socialism works fine until you run out of someone else's money.
- Margaret Thatcher - Topics: Government, Socialism, Tax.
The federal government is sending each of us a $600 rebate. If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, the money goes to China. If we spend it on gasoline it goes to the Arabs. If we buy a computer, it will go to India. If we purchase fruits and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. If we purchase a good car, it will go to Germany and Japan. If we purchase useless crap, it will go to Taiwan. In short, none of it will help the American economy. The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it on beer, since this isthe only product still produced in the US. I've been doing my part...
- Marc Faber - Topics: Government.
This EU is the New Communism. It is Power without Limits.
- Nigel Farage - Topics: Eurocrisis.
I put it to you: if you rob people of their ability to determine their own future, they will turn to violence.
- Nigel Farage - Topics: Government, Eurocrisis, Debt, Austerity.
How can anyone in his right mind think that our economic sluggishness is due to insufficient deficits and a timid Fed? Plenty do. It is a case of denial of an obvious fact: the entire Keynesian/government approach to stimulus has been a catastrophic failure.
- Robert P. Murphy - Topics: Monetary Policy.
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Monetary Policy, Debt.
The goal of the good trader, paradoxically, is not to make money. His goal is to trade well.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Trader.
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
- Herbert Stein - Topics: Stock Market.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Stock Market.
You need to buy insurance before the calamity hits. Bitcoin is the perfect anti-fiat. Bitcoin is equivalent to default insurance on a basket of fiat credit. You need to own bitcoin as a hedge to the regular calamities of the fiat system.
- Greg Foss - Topics: Cryptocurrency.
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.
- Friedrich A. Hayek - Topics: Fiat Currency, Government, Inflation.
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