seedcorn

They could have been careful with quantitative easing to guarantee that the newly-created money was used as seedcorn capital for productive enterprise rather than as casino chips.

Glencore could dynamite the commodity boom 2011

I wish you guys would just eat all his seedcorn. abb1 says:

Matthew Yglesias » Fun With Tax Deductions 2010

Moby compound words: second mortgage = seedcorn maggot

Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica 2008

I could have the invading host of the Black Road stumbling across an abandoned barn full of seedcorn bred by that famed farmer Monsanto, and falling into paroxysms of joy at their good fortune.

Brian Ruckley · On the Placing of Product 2008

Your smugness and quantum leap to racism only serves to perpetuate the troubling, "I don't want to get involved" attitude that is the seedcorn of criminal activity.

Charges against Gates to be dropped 2009

Mit says: Big Business acted with moral hazard in lending and financing, my plan is to reward them to do so, I propose feeding my crony business associates the seedcorn in a crack-pipe fashion instead of planting the seeds of real growth, a crack-pipe in every pot said MIT!

Rasmussen: Romney Leads In Florida 2009

“Stimulus” is just a fancy name for eating your seedcorn.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Government Spending Stimulate? 2009

Stimulus is just a fancy name for eating your seedcorn.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Government Spending Stimulate? 2009

For those of you who haven't read Keynes, his policy boils down to inflating the currency to cheat the workingman of the benefits of a nominal wage rate, i.e. consuming your seedcorn.

INTERVIEW: John C. Wright 2004

He learned, too, through Henry who was supposed to be the best farmer in the neighborhood, who had special success with certain crops, and who had raised the best seedcorn in the locality.

Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd