“More than one-third of households, 34 percent, endured a major unexpected expense over the past year, according to Bankrate’s latest Financial Security Index survey, with only 39 percent saying they would cover a $1,000 blow with savings.”— Taylor Tepper, bankrate.com
“Over all, 76 percent of the companies that went public last year were unprofitable on a per-share basis in the year leading up to their initial offerings, according to data compiled by Jay Ritter, a professor at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business.”— Kevin Roose, nytimes.com
“Its hard to find somebody in politics with the courgae to go against what's popular and do what they believe what will help people improve their lives.”— Charles Koch, youtube.com
“To have a free society it needs to be based on— you succeed by helping others improve their lives.”— Charles Koch, youtube.com
“These regulations setup a more static economy. So those that are in business are protected.”— Charles Koch, youtube.com
“The estimates I've seen is out of the $15 trillion economy, probably this corporate welfare and cronyism is costing the economy about $5 trillion.”— Charles Koch, youtube.com
“This two tiered society creates wellfare for the wealthy. And creates obsticles to opportunities to the disadvantaged.”— Charles Koch, youtube.com
“The mass of people in our economic system are required to live with the consequences of the decisions made by the corporate leaderships. Decisions for which they are excluded. Legally and in practice.”— Richard D. Wolff, youtube.com
“The human race, if it wanted liberty, equality, fraternity and democracy. Would have to demise a system other and different than capitalism.”— Richard D. Wolff, youtube.com
“Capitalism has always had people who love it and people who hate it.”— Richard D. Wolff, youtube.com
“From 1929 - 1941, The United States had unemployment rates hovering around 20% to 25%, that's 5-6 times the unemployment we have now. And the unemployment we have now is a problem.”— Richard D. Wolff, youtube.com
“Economics have been what philosophers call an agonistic field. A place in which different ways of understanding the economy contest with one another.”— Richard D. Wolff, youtube.com
“The United States alone holds over 45 percent of the global pharmaceutical market. In 2016, this share was valued around 446 billion U.S. dollars.”— Statista, statista.com