"The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains."

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Source : The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 60, Nr. 3-10, (p. 7), 2010.

Mark Skousen

#Reality Quotes #Retail Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.”
“Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.”
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
“Perhaps being hated in the right way is preferable to being loved in the wrong one.”
“Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Staying out of the penalty box will really help.”
“I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.”

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