49 Paul Craig Roberts Quotes for You to Enjoy

Paul Craig Roberts

American Economist

Born: Apr 3, 1939

American Capitalism Country Government Law People

Related authors: Alan Greenspan Herbert A. Simon John Kenneth Galbraith Milton Friedman Paul A. Volcker Richard Thaler Robert Reich Thomas Sowell

Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans. Paul Craig Roberts

Technology Architecture Internet Made Reading Engineering Software Possible Jobs Rise Various High-Speed Began Accounting Offshore Move Information Information Technology Forms Skills Manufacturing Professional Even Medical

Representing the people is not something 'our' representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness. Paul Craig Roberts

People Financial Busy Too Our Complex Sector Something Private Handful Representatives Representing Interest Groups

If all countries are exceptional, the word loses its meaning. Paul Craig Roberts

Word Exceptional Countries Loses Meaning

The financial markets are rigged by the big banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury in the interests of the profits of the few big banks and the dollar's exchange value, which is the basis of U.S. power. Paul Craig Roberts

Financial Value Power Big Few Markets Financial Markets Federal Exchange Federal Reserve Dollar Banks Which Interests Reserve Rigged Profits Treasury Basis

The Soviet Union was a partial check on capitalist looting in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. However, with the Soviet collapse, capitalist looting intensified during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes. Paul Craig Roberts

Collapse Obama Partial Check Looting However Clinton Intensified Soviet Soviet Union Regimes Bush Capitalist Union

Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away. Paul Craig Roberts

Corporations Given Pursuit Economy Wall Wall Street Short-Term Away Street Profits

The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that until Washington is fundamentally and totally changed, this threat will remain as the worse threat to life on earth. Paul Craig Roberts

If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism's carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end up dead from the external costs of capitalism. Paul Craig Roberts

Capitalism World Ocean Energy Consequences System Out Entire Entire World Costs Could Global Dead Global Warming End Up Warming Turns External

Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the people's dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be elected president. Paul Craig Roberts

Man People Wealth Enemies Understanding Reputation President Ruling Insight Risk More Could Had He Powerful Known Opponents His Trump Than Establishment Acquiring Realize Elected Meant Many Dissatisfaction

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media. Paul Craig Roberts

Government Failure Law Internet Big Monopoly Too Independent Federal Federal Government Fail Because Banks Enforce Media Now

Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won. Paul Craig Roberts

War People Winner First Believe Strike Weapons Foolish Obviously Because However Pre-Emptive Won Role American Happen Cannot Planners Who Many Agree Function Elevated Nuclear Nuclear War Nuclear Weapons