#commodities

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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

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.


David Ricardo


#commodities #commodity #diminution #every #exchangeable

The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.


David Ricardo


#difficulties #exchangeable #exchangeable value #increase #production

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.


David Ricardo


#beneficial #capital #commodities #facility #food

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.


Jim Rogers


#equity #markets #tend