Mr Hudson Quotes

When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard

I'm not interested in being fearful. I'm not a good flyer, but that doesn't stop me.

[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle.

I slather Egyptian Magic cream all over my face on overnight flights to keep my skin hydrated.

I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.

I don't like working out with lots of makeup because I don't like it getting into my pores.

Alec Baldwin is an incredible... I mean this guy is a tour de force when you talk about people that are generous and available and somebody you could approach and I have ideas.

Whatever goal you set for yourself, conquer it.

Be happy and be satisfied. Find fulfillment in everything you do.

The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.

Money is not a factor of production. But in order to have access to credit, in order to get money, in order to get an education, you have to pay the banks.

A bubble is only called that after it bursts, after the insiders get out, leaving the pension funds and small investors, Canadians and other naïve investors holding the bag.

Governments create money and spend it into the economy by running budget deficits. The paper currency in your pocket is technically a government debt.

A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up or down. There's a winner and a loser. It's like betting on a horserace.

Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living.

You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception.

When Hillary Clinton said she's going to do just what Obama does and we're going to continue to recover, most people know that we're not recovering at all. We're shrinking.

Small banks that lend to consumers are fine.

Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.

Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth upward.

The natural geopolitical arrangement is for Europe to be part of Eurasia, especially for Germany to develop trade and investment relationships with Russia.

If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.

If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

Most of the European leaders look at themselves as having to follow the United States, because if the US opposes them, there will be a regime change.

Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.

If you end internet neutrality and permit mergers of the big information technology corporations, that's a form of rent seeking. It's part of today's political revolution.

The United States Government has fought against creation of an international court to adjudicate the ability of national economies to pay debts.

The Eurozone die is cast. Countries must withdraw from the euro so that governments can create their own money once again, and resist creditor demands to carve up and privatize their public domain.

The problem is indeed that one party's debt finds its counterpart in some other party's savings. Not paying debts therefore involves annulling some other party's financial claims on the debtor.

Needless to say, banks and bondholders do not want to promote any arguments explaining the limits to how much can be paid without pushing economies into depression.

The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of all the branches of economic theory, trade theory is the most wrongheaded.

Debtors will seek to cancel their debts. Creditors will try to collect, and the more they succeed, the more they will impoverish the economy.

Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the Eurozone.

I think the less fracking there is, the better it is for the economy and society.

I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up.

Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans. So the effect is to impoverish many graduates with very high debts.

The vast majority of $100 bills are abroad, not in the United States. So yes, of course there's a use here but nowhere near as much as there's a use for $100 bills abroad.

If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it'll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders can decide that it's time to sell out, and the market will plunge.

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.

There are so many currency exchange rate problems that people are buying gold as a safe haven. Right now, gold looks like a safe haven if international exchange rates break down.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

The world's politics are in turmoil, not to mention the Mideast, where the US has mounted attacks from Libya to Iraq to Syria, and ISIS is attacking governments in today's pipeline rivalry.

You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has to come from borrowing from the banking system.

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.

When we say "people worry" about inflation, it's mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the '50s, '60s and '70s.

Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.

Trump has said that he wants to remove the tax deductibility of interest. If he can do that, fine. But I hope that Trump knows that it's not the President that sets tax policy. It's Congress.

Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.