Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate. ”

I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment. ”

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs. ”

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972. ”

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate. ”

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable? ”

The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make a living. ”

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities. ”

Fast, cheap, abundant broadband is a fantastic economic accelerator, enabling breakout businesses and kick-starting new industries. ”

People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences. ”