Quotes About Economics

You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

The Laffer Curve, by the way, was not invented by me.

I want people to understand how money works and how people invest.

There's so much disagreement about investing, and it's because nobody really knows.

What's the logic of investing millions in agriculture if it will not pay off?

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

I've nothing against Goldman Sachs. But Goldman Sachs isn't an investment bank. Goldman Sachs is a hedge fund. It's bigger than any hedge fund. It's more leveraged, to the power of three or five, than any hedge fund.

We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.

It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.

The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

Most citizens are consumers, not investors. They don't recognize the benefits to consumers that come from investment.

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

For me 'right sizing' requires that we get both the spending and revenue right. Focusing on one without the other would be irresponsible.

No, Islam did not lift American blacks out of poverty; capitalism did that.

Middle-class economics is the simple idea that the economy performs best when the benefits of economic growth are broadly shared, not isolated to a fortunate few.

We will go to Europe to change the rules that have impoverished Italians.

When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it like that's what Jamaica's about. And it affects the economics of the music.

Some may argue that countries like Japan and China improved economically without English, but they, too, are learning English fast.