Quotes About Economy

But while Poland had welcomed them, Russia despised them. Its economy was too primitive to need their commercial skills and it abhorred their religion. To Catherine the Great her one million new subjects were first and foremost "the enemies of Christ.

The value of turpentine production in the United States approached $7.5 million in 1860 ($210 million today), of which North Carolina accounted for more than $5 million.

Coal-oil production in early 1860 totaled some 20,000 to 30,000 gallons per day, or about 7 million to 9 million gallons per year.22 By comparison, the whale-oil harvest had peaked in 1854 at about 10.3 million gallons and begun a sharp decline.

By 1870, investment in the US oil industry had reached $200 million, the equivalent of almost $4 billion today. Annual production in Pennsylvania alone totaled more than 4.8 million barrels. Only cotton accounted for more US export dollars.

Shipments of coal from Newcastle upon Tyne, an expanding coal port on the Tyne River in the northeast of England, increased accordingly from about thirty-five thousand tons in the midsixteenth century to about four hundred thousand tons by 1625. In two generations, the historian J. U. Nef concludes, "the coal trade from the Tyne had multiplied twelvefold."22

By 27 April, Dammam No. 7 had produced more than 100,000 barrels.30 Across the decades, until it was shut down in 1982, No. 7 alone produced more than 32 million barrels of oil.

the old ego will always prefer an economy of merit and sacrifice to any economy of grace and unearned love, where we have no control.

There was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in.

Experts tell us that the global economy will worsen while household appliances will get smarter. By the time your child is twenty-one years old and ready to enter the workforce, all of her job interviews will be conducted by Roombas.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

for manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy.

The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will see to it poverty grows every day.

Alemania estaba transformada. Hitler había erradicado el desempleo, algo que ningún otro dirigente europeo había conseguido hacer.

Sabes lo que dice la gente? «Cuarenta y cinco años de comunismo y seguimos sin tener papel higiénico» ¡Somos pobres! El comunismo no funciona.

The strange thing is that everyone knows the answer. We need to decentralize decisions, introduce limited markets, and legitimize the semi-illegal gray economy so that it can grow.

Con la ocupación, los soviéticos habían emitido un exceso de moneda y provocado con ello su devaluación, de modo que todo se compraba y se vendía a cambio de cigarrillos.

Maud ficou radiante por ter ganhado um dólar, que valia cerca de um trilhão de marcos.

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street.

The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.