#commodities

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities. ↗

— David Ricardo

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Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag. ↗

— Jim Rogers

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Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years. ↗

— Jim Rogers

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Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up. ↗

— Jim Rogers

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You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon. ↗

— Jim Rogers

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But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed. ↗

— David Ricardo

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For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened. ↗

— Steve Forbes

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