Quotes About Economics

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

We were much poorer than many families.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

Despite offering dollar menus and frequent discounts, many of these chains also scored poorly in terms of value.

Baseball is a poorly run business.

Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.

I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.

China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe.

If you think broadly about business, population size is a very important factor.

People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

The immediate impact of British imperial free-trading was often the collapse of local indigenous industries which were in no position to compete, and a consequent destruction of livelihoods and communities.

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact.

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.