Quotes About Economy

What makes cities great, and what leads to their gradual demise? As this book will argue, three critical factors have determined the overall health of cities— the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce.

The global securities industry, for example, once overwhelmingly concentrated in the financial districts of London and New York, has gradually shifted an ever larger share of their operations to their respective suburban rings, other smaller cities, and overseas. The headquarters might remain in a midtown high-rise, but more and more the jobs are located elsewhere.

Suburbia, triumphant in the world's leading economy, also swept successfully through virtually every part of the advanced industrial world. Compared with the option of living closely packed in apartment complexes, most human beings seemed to define their personal "better city" as a little more space and privacy, and perhaps even a spot of lawn.

Google at the end of 2013 had a market cap six times that of General Motors while having one-fifth as many American workers.

On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.

Yo mama so fat that when she skips a meal the stock market crashes

The Italian philosopher Paolo Virno says we have moved from having a "proletariat"—a solid block of manual workers with jobs—to a "precariat," a shifting mass of chronically insecure people who don't know whether they will have any work next week and may never have a stable job.

we need to move beyond the idea of growth, to something called a "steady-state economy.

If this drug war continues, Henry Smith Williams wrote, there will be a five-billion-dollar drug smuggling industry in the United States in fifty years' time. He was right almost to the exact year.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

If you want to change the world, change it through the market

Globalization is a fact of economic life

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.