Economy

ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY

"If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats,
we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation,
we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models."
Lester B. Pearson

"In order to function, markets need a basis, and although they cannot produce it by themselves, they can certainly destroy it.
Trust is such a basis. ...Morality and trust permeate a society from below."
Stefan Klein

"For all the gold and silver stolen [from the Indians of the Americas] and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class."
Hans Koning