Quotes by Paul Craig Roberts

The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.

In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.

I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment.

It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.

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

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.

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.

There are no free financial markets in America or, for that matter, anywhere in the Western word, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind.

The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.

The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. 'Free trade' is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use lawsuits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.