Quotes About Economy

In the 1970s, as inflation took off and growth slowed, Western societies seemed to have fallen victim to excessive state intervention in the economy, embracing wage and price controls and other supposed remedies that only made things worse.

Fue la locura financiera, un ciclo autodestructivo de impagos y devaluaciones, la que hizo que Argentina pasara de ser el sexto país más rico del mundo en la década de 1880 a convertirse en un desastre inflacionista en la de 1980.

La historia económica de Argentina en el siglo XX constituye una demostración práctica de que todos los recursos del mundo pueden quedar reducidos a cero por la mala gestión financiera.

las religiones se hacen tolerantes cuando se debilitan, cuando pierden poder terrenal. Mientras controlan los hilos de la política y la economía y tienen un brazo secular para poder hacer cumplir sus preceptos, rara vez dan muestras de tolerancia. Este sentimiento aparece cuando los que controlan la práctica de una creencia tienen que ser aceptados, no cuando tienen que aceptar. Éste es un fenómeno que ocurre en casi todas las religiones.

Yet the idea of American investment was potent. To open the Irish economy up so that British bosses could employ Irish workers was to admit defeat. To have American firms in small Irish towns would be to embrace a thrilling modernity and simultaneously to reconnect with the great Irish-American diaspora in whom so much hope – from tourist dollars to support for the national cause of ending partition – had been invested

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

Connecticut farmers keep our economy running.

I believe if given the choice, Americans will choose to support American farmers when they head to the store to shop.

India's lifeline is the farmers and its agriculture system, and destroying them would mean an end for the country's food security and self-sufficiency.

China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.

Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies.

The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

The Fed is totally open.

I don't want to see the dollar strong because the rest of the world is crumbling. I would like to see the dollar strong because the Fed has said it wants it to be strong in the future.

The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

The Fed cannot save us from ourselves.

I don't want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away.

The federal government is enormous; it never shrinks. And the interest is killing us.