Quotes About Economy

Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.

I had a history teacher who taught us a lot about the Cold War. You had these examples of countries where the government had tried to manage the economy really intensely, and it ended up being bad for the citizens there. I found myself beginning to lean more right on economic issues.

China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.

For anybody out there... who are parents who are taking care of an elderly parent or an adult child with disabilities, they know that if you don't have an infrastructure of care to support your loved ones, you can't effectively work, you can't effectively interact in the 21st century economy.

The RBI is interacting with the banks every day.

Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.

No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.

Complexity and interconnectedness matter as much as size in assessing risk in banking.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.

But I think we need the international market.

The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.

The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it.

Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time.

Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.

I did not forsee a day where the government had to intervene to bail out basically everybody.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

The man who really knows can tell all that is transmissible in a very few words. The economic problem of the teacher (of violin or of language or of anything else) is how to string it out so as to be paid for more lessons.

El dinero siempre es de alguien. En general, de otro.

It's time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny.

Artichoke is a real dish for the poor..; it's the only one that, when you have finished eating, you have more in your plate than when you started. (Michel Colucci known as Coluche)

A strong number could be the final piece of the puzzle needed for the Fed to begin its rate hike in December," said Farbod Mimeh, a dealer at London Capital Group. http://www.wsj.com/articles/global-stocks-pressured-by-metals-prices-1448355689

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.