Quotes About Economy

Die Gesellschaft, die auf der modernen Industrie beruht, ist nicht zufällig oder oberflächlich spektakulär, sie ist zutiefst spektaklistisch. Im Spektakel, dem Bild der herrschenden Wirtschaft, ist das Endziel nichts, die Entwicklung alles. Das Spektakel will es zu nichts anderem bringen als zu sich selbst.

there is no final inner cabal, no capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses) pulling the strings: the final instance 'calling the shots' (often literally) is the market economy itself.

That which was the economic it must become the I.

But then the market does a strange, powerful, sometimes frustrating, but often wonderful thing: it decides on its own.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'.

People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about Cuba and Russia and the economy, because beneath the hard structure of words was an abyss of ignorance and not-knowing; and, in a sense, of not wanting to know.

The early morning flight to Boise was uneventful. We took off from LaGuardia, which could be a lousier airport but not without a serious act of God. I got my customary seat in economy class, the one behind a tiny old lady who insists on reclining her seat against my knees for the duration of the flight. Studying her gray follicles and pallid scalp—her head was practically in my lap—helped distract me. Squares

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

Predicting the market is always tough.

Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.

It's pretty rare to just talk to people who are having a tough time in the economy, to hear their individual stories.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times.

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation.

My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much tougher issues of income equality. If they show the leadership they have demonstrated in the last few elections, they can bring changes even greater than my generation achieved.

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?