Quotes About Economy

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

the war was financed with a $200 million loan from the Rockefellers' National City Bank. How was the loan to be repaid? Since no income tax then existed, a telephone tax was levied on the American people. That tax remained in place for 108 years.

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

Taxes are a penalty on progress.

The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

Overall, the United States spent $63 billion of its own money on Iraq's reconstruction throughout the war.

The unemployment rate rose between 1968 and 1970 from 3.6 to 4.9 percent—a jump of more than 33 percent. The consumer price index increased by roughly 11 percent in the same period. Analysts of the economy coined a new and memorable term for what seemed to be happening: "stagflation.

By 1971 the United States had an unfavorable balance of international trade for the first time since 1893.

This means that thousands of wine firms must compete to sell their products through a relatively small number of highly concentrated distributors.

The flames of a new economic evolution run around us, and we turn to find that competition has killed competition, that corporations are grown greater than the State . . . and that the naked issue of our time is with property becoming master, instead of servant.

Poor economies breed tyrannies.

In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It's quicker, easier, and involves less licking

Duty Free shops which are able to charge much lower prices than ordinary shops but - mysteriously - don't

I didn't have a copy of Europe on Five Dollars a Day (as it then was) because I wasn't in that financial league.

economic recession?" "Well, you see, five million years ago the Galactic economy collapsed, and seeing that custom-built planets are something of a luxury commodity, you see …

The computers were index-linked to the Galactic stock-market prices, you see, so that we'd all be revived when everybody else had rebuilt the economy enough to afford our rather expensive services.

Life is so expensive.

Abe said something interesting. He said that because everyone's so poor these days, the '90s will be a decade with no architectural legacy or style- everyone's too poor to put up new buildings. He said that code is the architecture of the '90s.

we started talking more about all of the fiftysomethings being dumped out of the economy by downsizing. No one knows what to do with these people, and it's so sad, because being 50 nowadays isn't like being 50 a hundred years ago when you'd probably be dead.

But that's impossible! China's footwear revenue is nearly seventy billion dollars a year. Why, Dongguan alone has fifteen hundred factories—many of them no bigger than a restaurant.