Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor. ”

Few nations have been as reliant on nuclear power as Korea. In many ways, cheap and reliable atomic energy helped make possible the 'miracle on the Han River' - i.e., the swift post-World War II economic surge of Korea. ”

Donald Trump is producing the kind of shoot-the-moon economic recovery that we last saw under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He's copied a lot of the Reagan playbook: Deregulate, cut taxes, promote American energy. ”

We need national economic policies that have been shown to work at the state level. ”

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living. ”

After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country. ”

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. ”

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. ”

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones. ”

From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil. ”