Quotes About Economy

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.

The OECD deals with the economic aspects of a host of issues, including education, health, and the environment.

This was 2008, you know. The economy was falling apart, spiraling. And I was hosting a game in New York, and there was $5 to $7 million on the table.

Macri only wooed hot money, carry traders and speculators. He is the only responsible person for the hardship Argentina is going through.

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability.

I'm hoping there'll be, if not a boom, then a big pick-up in housing because if that happens, then it will employ a lot of people, and the domino effect will go through the community, and it will help everyone.

Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs.

Think of how much time is spent looking and applying for jobs. Some of those who have read my book on the precariat have told me they have applied for thousands of jobs. This is scarcely leisure; it is work.

Foxconn is hugely important, not only in China - it's the largest employer in China - Foxconn is important around the world.

Emerging markets are hugely important.

Countries often prioritise economic interests over human rights - hence all the kowtowing to China.

We all need a lot of humility, and especially about the economy.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.

Correction, he had $4.30 in his pocket

Rambling speeches and bad writing litter our lives. If talk is cheap, it's because the supply usually exceeds the demand.

Rome did not so much fall as collapse under its own weight. Germanic migrations, a corrupt and ineffectual government, insecurity within the borders, a breakdown of trade, and an economy built on slavery when the end of territorial expansion shut down new sources of slaves — all combined to destabilize Roman society. Add to that a colder and wetter climate that made it more difficult to grow crops, and this spelled disaster for at least the western, Latin-speaking half of the Empire.

Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society.

But a country which can be saved only by money is a lost country anyway. After all, what is the choice, really? On the one hand: catastrophic capitalism, and on the other a capital catastrophe.

Ever since 1941, when Roosevelt got us out of the Depression by pumping federal money into rearming, war or the threat of war has been the principal engine to our society. Now the war is over. Or is it? Can we afford to give up our—well, cozy unremitting war?

postwar managers: if you want to avoid depression, spend money on war. No one told them that the same money spent on the country's infrastructure would have saved us debt, grief, blood.