#commodities

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#casino #commodities #competition #embrace #markets

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#commodities #commodity #constant #given #man

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#events #images #news #propaganda #reporting

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#commodities #equipment #find #hi-fi #home

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. ↗

— Karl Marx

#acquired #add #being #brings #capital

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#how #look #market #need #speculators

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#cannot #certificates #checks #commodities #countries

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money. ↗

— David Ricardo

#been #cases #cause #commodities #confined

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes. ↗

— David Ricardo

#classes #commercial #commodities #degree #demand