Showing posts with label greed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greed. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Quote of the Day: Differentiating Self Interest from Greed

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Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) was the first major figure during the Enlightenment to maintain that commercial activity restrains gree...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Quote of the Day: Selfishness, via Profits, Guides People to Serve the Need of Others More Effectively

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making money honestly means creating something other people value, not necessarily what you value. The more money I want, the more I have ...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Corporations Are People

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Emotions can make even the best lose their sense of reasoning My favorite marketing guru, Seth Godin, writing in disgust from an unfortuna...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Quote of the day: The Market Doesn’t Reward Greed, It Punishes It

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Naked greed does not maximize corporate profits. Customers do not have full information about product quality, so they must trust their s...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Turkey Talk And The Message Of US Thanksgiving

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Mintlife's interesting trivia on the US Thanksgiving celebration. For a crispier view, please click on the image. Personal Finance – M...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Phisix: The Case For A Bull Run

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``Joseph Schumpeter analysed the Great Depression in terms of "creative destruction". He thought that cyclical recessions and depr...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Video: Milton Friedman on Greed

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From the Heritage Blog , Some excerpts from Friedman's terse but awesomely crisp rejoinder on capitalism's "greed"... ``...
Sunday, October 05, 2008

Selling the Bailout: The Fear Factor

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``For historians each event is unique. Economics, however, maintains that forces in society and nature behave in repetitive ways. History is...