Quotes About Economics

We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.

No matter how you slice it, limiting the SALT deduction forces New Jersey families to spend even more to subsidize Americans in less economically productive states, which take more than they ever give back to the federal government.

Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that's not growing very much.

I don't think the government needs to be frightened of the banks in the slightest.

The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don't have the resources necessary to fill that gap.

Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

Obamacare won't just bankrupt the country. It may bankrupt small businesses. It may bankrupt individuals.

In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.

A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

Europe's demography is developing towards a smaller working population in an ageing society.

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.

In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, those numbers have flipped: Spending on food has fallen to 9.9 percent, while spending on health care has climbed to 16 percent of national income.

They can print more money," he liked to say, "and they can print new stocks and bonds, but they can't print more land.

The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of corn to one of meat, which is why chicken costs less than beef.