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Quotes About Economy

We gotta get Fannie and Freddie out of government ownership. It makes no sense that these are owned by the government and have been controlled by the government for as long as they have.
~ Steve Mnuchin
We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car.
~ Travis Kalanick
We're concerned with a powerful government who is telling General Motors now, maybe, what they can charge for their automobiles. Indeed, if the government owns 61 percent, they can do that.
~ Phil Gingrey
People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
~ P. Chidambaram
Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.
~ Vladimir Putin
Trillion-dollar bailouts, bloated budgets, and boondoggle spending packages aren't working, at least for my friends and neighbors.
~ Stephen Fincher
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
~ Barack Obama
Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.
~ Jeb Hensarling
Guys like me are job creators, and we don't like having a bulls-eye painted on our back.
~ Steve Wynn
India and Pakistan should fight only in the field of economy.
~ Nawaz Sharif
The Palestinian conflict is the glass ceiling of Israel's economy.
~ Tzipi Livni
If we see to it that the Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians have jobs, we will actually be securing our own future.
~ Stef Wertheimer
In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.
~ Ann Coulter
I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably.
~ Guy Standing
There is no debating that the coronavirus pandemic hit our economy very, very hard.
~ Tommy Tuberville
For every criticism of the U.S. economy, whenever people go into a panic, they look around and say, 'That's the cleanest shirt I have. So I'm putting it on.'
~ Austan Goolsbee
In a financial crisis, only the Fed, as the lender of last resort, might stand between our economy and financial catastrophe. We must leave the Fed with the flexibility to provide liquidity in order to stop a financial panic.
~ Stephen A. Schwarzman
Money is just paper that gets us through life.
~ John Daly
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
~ John Buchanan Robinson
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
~ Paul Samuelson
We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.
~ Margrethe Vestager
High-level corruption, inefficiency, non-governance, and policy paralysis have crippled the nation's economy.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
~ Samora Machel