- Self - Associate Editor, Financial Times: There is now research showing that in advanced economies two thirds of the population is now on the track to be poorer than their parents.
- Self - Professor of Economics, Columbia University: The big reforms of the Reagan and Thatcher area lowered the tax rates on the rich, on the assumption 'it would trickle down'. Didn't happen.
- Self - Associate Editor, Financial Times: We have a mythology in this country that what's good for Wall Street is good for main street. But this has never been true.
- Self - Professor of History, University of Reading: The industry that accelerates fastest in the 19th century is the industry about Christmas.
- Self - Professor of History, University of Reading: By the 19th century, the cult of fashion is all-encompassing. Even working-class women are trying to stay in fashion.
- Self - Professor of Economics, Columbia University: [on Reaganomics] The bottom 90% experienced near-stagnation; most of the growth has gone to the top 10%. Median income for a typical American household is roughly what it was a quarter of a century ago. Real wages - adjusted for inflation - are at the level they were 60 years ago. And life expectancy has been declining. This clearly shows the economy has not been working for most Americans.
- Self - Professor of Economics, Columbia University: [referring to 19th century] The overwhelming use of the federal Army in this period is strike breaking.