When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We must take the profit out of war.
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.