#commodities

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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

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

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.


Jim Rogers


#equity #markets #tend

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.


Jim Rogers


#bull #bull market #commodities #every #historically

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.


Jim Rogers


#been #commodities #consolidation #excess #helped

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.


Jim Rogers


#commodities #even #executives #guess #hot