Markets Quotes

Arguing that the only problem with a free market is lack of competition, is like arguing that that the only problem with prostitution is that there aren't enough pimps.

We don’t live in a free market society… markets are controlled by the major players who influence legislation to perpetuate their control...

Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for "instrumental thinking." But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody thinks you are wrong

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

To discern profits only when it is within the ken of the market herd is not the acme of investing excellence

Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops... eventually it all catches you at the same time.

There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.

The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.

It used to be said "Build it and they will come, " now it is "Build it and bribe them in".