#rates

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#age #changes #economy #government #internet

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#companies #credit #high #including #insanely

Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan. ↗

— John Boehner

#begin #begins #best #businesspeople #create

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. ↗

— Michael Ende

#commonplace #each #granted #great #holds

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#children #education #fails #focus #frustrates

The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be. ↗

— John Ensign

#beings #clearly #create #demonstrates #desire

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. ↗

— Ron Paul

#capitalism #central #central bank #cherishes #contracts

Wisdom may begin in wonder, however, it inevitability ends in righteousness (Socrates)." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#righteousness #socrates #wisdom #wonders #r-alan-woods

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#feeling #paltry #separates #silences #unites

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#benefits #found #giver #giving #i