Quotes About Economics

Everyone is so fascinated that I voted Leave. I find that interesting in itself. As an economic liberal, I want to see Britain trading more freely around the world.

Nobody voted to be poorer, and nobody voted leave on the basis that somebody with a gold-plated pension and inherited wealth would take their jobs away from them.

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

There's trade, there's sensible trade, and there's dumb trade.

I think the economics of this country is intricately linked to the politics of this country and the two cannot be separated.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

A capitalistic kibbutz is not a bad idea. You need both.

I established my bank in 1988.

The cost of money rises dramatically if you can't afford to keep it in a bank.

Citi is the cheapest large bank.

It's very important to the conservative movement to be rid of the Ex-Im Bank.

My dad was a banker, and I've always had an interest in it.

I happen to know a bit about banking.

On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.

Baseball has all the money.

Battles, on the military and the economic front, are first lost in the minds of the strategists for want of ideas before they are lost on the battleground for want of armoury.

You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

I practice what has come to be called behavioral economics.

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way," Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations, "and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.

The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a

All men," Homer wrote, "have need of the gods," and the secular wish to banish religion from the public square is perennial but doomed—one might as well try to eliminate economics, geography, or partisanship as forces that shape our politics. The more productive task is to manage and marshal the effects of religious feeling on the broader republic.

A confirmed free trader, Bush was committed to NAFTA