Quotes About Economy

Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses.

Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare.

The industrial world enjoys a rare combination of growth and low inflation; the 'Washington consensus,' a model of economic development that emphasizes macroeconomic discipline and open markets, is being adopted by more countries.

I very rarely shop. The only money I spend is on, like, Uber and food.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.

Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.

A crucial responsibility of any central bank is to control inflation, the average rate of increase in the prices of a broad group of goods and services.

A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

When Indian economy was growing at the rate of 8 to 9 percent, I think everybody was quite happy. Even when there were defects in our policies, they were overlooked, and when the economy slows down, people try to find fault and excuses.

It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.

Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because monetary policy will need to respond to whatever disturbances may buffet the economy.

China became the second biggest economy in the world by pegging their currency to the dollar at an artificially cheap rate.

Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings.

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of growth in the coming year, 2012. But of course these are projections.

If we continue to print new paychecks at the rate we've been adding them, that mitigates a lot of the damage of higher gasoline prices.

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

Many liberals argue that big U.S. companies don't really pay the top corporate rate. While this is sometimes true, it's mainly because, during recessions, companies lose money, and get a tax loss carryforward that temporarily reduces their effective rate. But during economic expansions, when profits rise, companies then do pay the top rate.

From 1950 to 2000, the U.S. economy grew at an average rate of 3.5 percent. That generated a massive gain in real GDP per person from $16,000 to over $50,000. A huge win for the middle class.