Capital Flight Quotes

Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"

Shaking the confidence in the American economy. This will lead investors to refrain from investing in America or participating in American companies, thus accelerating the fall of the American economy.

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

Capital must be protected. If its operations be not left free, if they are to be controlled by bodies of workmen, it will leave this for some more favored country

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

In a world with weak aggregate demand, countries are engaging in a futile competition for a greater share of it. In the process, they are creating financial-sector and cross-border risks that will become increasingly apparent as countries exit their unconventional policies.

The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

The whole banking sector in Mexico was literally bankrupt. For whatever reason, instead of intervening in the sector or supporting the banks, the government expropriated them. We went through the very laborious period of selling the failing banks to the wealthy people of Mexico.

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

Foreigners will eventually own so much of America that there will be nothing left to trade.

At the end of the day, capital is a coward. It's going to flee from wherever it perceives risk to be present in the marketplace.

Brexit will lead to a flight of talent, money and taxes - and the country will have to take on more and more debt.

We know India is very focussed on black money; it is a very high-focus subject and we have been very careful to make sure the investments into India are legitimate. There is no 'round-tripping' or hot money or bad money being funnelled through Singapore.

A growth strategy requires tax rates that people are prepared to pay and cannot avoid or do not wish to avoid by going offshore or leaving the country.

The roots of the crisis in East Asia were in private sector decisions. The biggest problems were the misallocation of investment, most notably to speculative real estate, and risky financing, especially borrowing short-term debt on international markets.

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

The insecurity of property in Ireland, whether real or supposed … prevents the English or Scotch capitalist from transmitting materials to be manufactured in Ireland.

To prohibit the Exportation of Money, in that it is a thing almost impracticable, it is almost nugatory and vain.

London's central role in the financial market would be undermined if wealthy foreigners did not want to come here.

And I don't want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.

There's nothing crazy about not letting our companies bring their money back into their country.

I think the randomness by Donald Trump's governing, by tweeting, sloganeering, attacking, will create great chaos in the entire market. I think people will have difficulties in predicting the future. I think capital will recede.