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Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing. ↗

— David Korten

#assets #consuming #deficit #flows #into

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay. ↗

— David Korten

#deceiving #due #generally #growth #jobs

The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. ↗

— David Korten

#brussels #citizens #decision #democracy #eu

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price. ↗

— David Korten

#buyers #comprised #costs #degree #economy

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. ↗

— David Korten

#brainwashing #capitalist #defense #economics #excesses

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#disclosures #inquiry #made #mankind #our

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#going #interferes #looking #sky #umbrella

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#certain #day #half #half hours #hours

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#body #his #hold #humanity #i

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#lasting #neutrality #principle #weakness