Max Keiser Quotes

Free prices are the price of freedom.

Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.

I believe in the principle that if you have more competition, it will drive down the prices.

Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.

Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.

That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.

Choices abound in the free market. Choice creates real and immediate accountability.

In a free market, businesses compete for customers by keeping prices down and for labor by keeping wages up.

It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply.

There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.

I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

With competition, prices tend to be uniform; with monopoly, prices are uniformly high.

I am just as anxious as Mr. Brandeis can be, to have trade regulated by competition as far as possible; but as a matter of fact, competition has broken down hopelessly in this country to adequately control prices, to adequately control quality, and we all know it… it is the theory regarding competition that it will regulate prices and quality; that it will give us reasonable prices and superior quality. That is a beautiful theory. But if this theory has ever corresponded to the facts in the past (and this I doubt) we may be sure that in the future it will never again do so.

Only God can fix prices.

I believe in markets before mandates.

The free market economy provides an unparalleled example of a continuing healthy circulation of elites. In this dynamic economy, failure to keep up with competitors, failure to satisfy the demands of consumers in the best possible way, will topple elites quickly and establish new ones who do the job better.

What anyone has he may value at what rate he will and transgresses not against justice if he sells it at any price provided he makes no distinction of buyers but parts with it as cheap to this as he would to any other buyer.

What is price gouging and what is capitalism can sometimes be a fine line.

… in May, 1917, wheat was selling in Chicago at $3.25 a bushel and the consumer was paying for his bread on that basis, although the official estimate of the Department of Agriculture of the average price actually received by the farmer for his crop was but $1.44 a bushel.