Quotes About Economy

interest rates, foreign exchange

Palm branches were symbolic of national hope for Jerusalem. The date palm was abundant in Israel and one of the staple products of the economy. Soon after this time, date palms were portrayed on coins stamped by the rebels against Rome. In the early spring in Jerusalem, the branches of palm trees were still small. Cloaks were used to spread in front of a king as early as 2 Kings 9:13.

The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system that had never existed...except in the fertile imagination of those who would not confront either the reality that existed or the change that would bring them closer to reality.

If we're going to stay competitive in a globalised economy, everyone's got to be able to perform at the top of their game.

Consumer staples usually underperform the S&P 500 during bull markets and outperform it during bear markets.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.

Stock markets are not a way of putting money into companies, but a means of taking it out. The

Lending to firms and individuals engaged in the production of goods and services – which most people would imagine was the principal business of a bank – amounts to about 3 per cent of that total (see Chapter 6

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

Having too expensive a currency can cause severe economic problems, which has been the case in many sectors of the Australian economy: the Australian dollar, its strength boosted by COMMODITY wealth, was so highly valued that it devastated the country's retail sector – it was so easy to buy stuff from abroad using super-charged Australian dollars that local shops found it near-impossible to compete.

Lowest of all were bankers and auctioneers, who made money without actually producing anything—activities that, to right-thinking people, had the aspect of a species of magic.

If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.

between 2007 and 2012 the U.S. workforce gained 387,000 managers while losing almost two million clerical jobs.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

If enterprise is afoot, wealth accumulates, whatever may be happening to thrift; and if enterprise is asleep, wealth decays, whatever thrift may be doing.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.

A monetary economy, we shall find, is essentially one in which changing views about the future are capable of influencing the quantity of employment and not merely its direction.

Wage flexibility may not cure an ailing economy, but simply make the rich richer and the poor poorer; you get an economy driven not by wages, but by assets and if those assets stay in the same hands, there is no dynamism and social mobility.

The fundamentals of America's economy are strong.

Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace.