Quotes About Economy

In the wake of the 2008 recession, Congress and the Obama Administration rightly focused financial regulation on protecting the nation's financial system from itself.

With less regulation, I think you would see growth come back. Of course, there are situations where you need regulation. Antitrust regulation, for example, is a good idea because you want competition. But beyond that, it gets very difficult.

When businesses spend less on overhead and government regulation, they can invest more in hiring; that's good for all Alabamians.

It is not true at all that a free market will ensure a democracy. It doesn't. There must be a balance between a free market and some regulations which are essential in order to safeguard the interests of consumers and of people in general.

We need to cut the capital gains tax; we need to take regulations off the backs of business and allow banks to once again lend.

I would think that to say 'regulations cost jobs' or 'regulations create jobs' is too simple, and we need to look at the regulation.

There's a reason why, when Reagan became president, he started getting rid of regulations, and we had a booming economy.

There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

All I'll say is if you look at countries where it is - where they are rapidly growing, they're investing in their infrastructure. They're investing in their educations. They are trying to streamline regulations, but they're not neglecting key investments.

Nearly every policy during the Obama years was anti-growth: tax increases; minimum-wage hikes; ObamaCare; Dodd-Frank regulations; massive debt spending; the Paris climate change accord; an EPA assault against American energy; massive expansions of food-stamps programs and more.

Unilaterally disarming the American economy through crushing regulations will empower Washington but few others.

President Trump cut regulations, allowing businesses large and small to expand and hire. The Democrats created those regulations.

Britain needs a tough, strong financial conduct regulator.

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.

Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an elusive goal: true American energy security.

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

The policy of the Obama administration is to employ regulatory strangulation to drive up the price of energy. This must be exposed and opposed for what it is: a policy of forced economic contraction.

For the life of me, I cannot understand Clinton and her proposed across-the-board tax hikes on individuals, businesses and investors. I cannot fathom her plans for increased regulatory burdens, which include more government-run healthcare and a halt to the fossil-fuel energy boom.

As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.

Regulatory reform must move beyond limiting the damage that the financial sector can do and ensure that the sector genuinely serves society.

The economic system is acting like a cancer on humanity. The regulatory system, the accountants, the legal firms support the metastasizing of this cancer.

Optimism leads to investment, and anything that our government can do to reinforce optimism in our economy is good.