#finance

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too. ↗

#know #love #obviously #statistics #their

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. ↗

— Clarence Day

#addiction #always #bad #excess #health

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#become #capitalism #country #embrace #finance

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#capitalism #communism #exploits #just #man

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#advantages #although #been #case #contrary

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#change #changes #every #falls #far

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics. ↗

— Merton Miller

#economics #finance #proof #since #throughout

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. ↗

— Merton Miller

#expertise #finance #had #i #particularly

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. ↗

— Merton Miller

#beat #bucks #dig #else #information

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it. ↗