Quotes About Policy

Those at the top have managed to design a tax system in which they pay less than their fair share—they pay a lower fraction of their income than do those who are much poorer.

Capitalist economies have thus always involved a blend of private markets and government—the question is not markets or government, but how to combine the two to best advantage.

la guerra moderna de alta tecnología está diseñada para suprimir el contacto físico: arrojar bombas desde 50.000 pies logra que uno no «sienta» lo que hace, la administración económica moderna es similar, desde un hotel de lujo, uno puede forzar insensiblemente políticas sobre las cuales uno pensaría dos veces si conociera a las personas cuya vida va a destruir

En los problemas del FMI y las demás instituciones económicas internacionales subyace un problema de Gobierno: quién decide qué hacen. Las instituciones están dominadas no sólo por los países industrializados más ricos sino también por los intereses comerciales y financieros de esos países, lo que naturalmente se refleja en las políticas de dichas entidades

In a world of globalization, creating market value had become entirely separated from creating employment. There was no reason to believe that giving more money to America's wealthy would lead to more investment in the United States:

en los noventa, la confianza en el poder de los mercados se había generalizado hasta tal punto que la liberalización financiera era impulsada por algunos de mis colegas dentro de la Administración, y al final también por el propio Clinton.

Minimum wages have not kept up with inflation (so that the real federal minimum wage in the United States in 2011 is 15 percent lower than it was almost a third of a century ago, in 1980);

El mismo presidente George H. W. Bush llamó a la política económica de Reagan de subsidio a la oferta economía vudú. La de Trump es una economía vudú con esteroides.

Primero, por sí solos los mercados no logran la prosperidad compartida y duradera.

The economic elite have pushed for a framework that benefits them at the expense of the rest, but it is an economic system that is neither efficient nor fair. I explain how our inequality gets reflected in every important decision that we make as a nation—from our budget to our monetary policy, even to our system of justice—and show how these decisions themselves help perpetuate and exacerbate this inequality.13 Given

Trickle-up economics can work, even when trickle-down economics doesn't. Even

The eurozone was flawed at birth.

La economía no es un juego de suma cero; la política económica afecta al crecimiento, y las acciones que aumentan la desigualdad ralentizan el crecimiento, especialmente a largo plazo.

Instead of saying, 'I feel terrible. I feel guilty,' maybe [women] can take these results and advocate for [national] family-leave policies that create more options for mothers of babies," said researcher Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, the lead author of the 2002 day-care study, as she expressed her frustration with all the hand-wringing and guilt expressed in the study's wake by working mothers. "Every other industrialized nation has done it. Why can't we?

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

The poets speak only poetry, not program, not policy, not even advocacy, only poetry. But the poetry exists in order to make available what the ideologues are unable to see and what the policy makers are unable to grasp.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

What our nation needs is a separation of "business and state" as it has a separation of "church and state." That would mean crony capitalism and crony socialism could not survive.

The federal minimum wage is complemented by state laws that sometimes exceed the federal requirements. Federal and state minimum wage laws represent deliberate governmental intervention in the labor market to produce a pattern of results other than that produced in a free labor market.

views as well. The president "believes [the bill] will involve great expense;

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.