Quotes About Economy

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending ' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

during the Asian financial crisis the United States and other Western countries demanded that the Asians take three steps--let bad banks fail, keep spending under control, and keep interest rates high. In it own crisis, the West did exactly the opposite on all three fronts.

low interest rates and cheap credit also cause people to act foolishly or greedily ...

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it. It's cheaper in the long run.

Competition is the heart, soul, liver, lungs and kidney of the beast we call Western capitalism.

The chief privilege of capitalism, today as in the past, remains the ability to choose.... And since it does have the freedom to choose, capitalism can always change horses in mid-stream--the secret of its vitality.

The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

Le capitalisme, un certain capitalisme, existe depuis toujours, voir dès l'antique Babylone qui a connu des banquiers, des marchands engagés dans des affaires lointaines, et tous les instruments de crédit: lettre de change, billet à ordre, chèque... En ce sens, l'histoire du capitalisme va 'd'Hammourabi à Rockefeller'.

To make matters worse, it was clear that small-scale subsistence farming had, sadly, become extremely difficult to maintain in a modern economy. Many of the MST settlements depended on government subsidies to survive. They could wave red Che Guevara flags and rage against the unfairness of global capitalism until they turned hoarse, but that was the reality we all had to live in.

The Left did not regard JK favorably, given his efforts to strengthen a free market economy with participation of foreign capital. Nor was he much admired by the academy that viewed with suspicion his flamboyant democratic attitude, which usually led him to reconcile conflicting forces. My father was a federal deputy at that time, a member of the coalition of parties that supported the government.

La actual crisis financiera y económica internacional debería enseñar a Occidente a evitar la autocomplacencia y desconfiar de su propio materialismo.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

Taking your own reflection as a lover is, moreover, another piece of prudent economy—for after all it costs nothing.

BMW means Brexit Made Wonderful.

There is ideology and populism and then there's sheer madness of sending your country into a recession to prove a point no one understands.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

El petróleo, hermanos míos, es el nervio vital de la civilización

Once false money (under whatever form it may take) is put into circulation, depreciation will ensue, and manifest itself by the universal rise of everything that is capable of being sold. But this rise in prices is not instantaneous and equal for all things.

But things have been so admirably arranged by the Divine inventor of social order that in this, as in everything else, political economy and morality, far from clashing, agree; and the wisdom of Aristus is not only more dignified, but still more profitable, than the folly of Mondor. And when I say profitable, I do not mean only profitable to Aristus, or even to society in general, but more profitable to the workmen themselves—to the trade of the time.

Money only appears for the sake of facilitating the arrangements between the parties.

Charmed with his discourse, delighted to learn that it is so easy to promote, by legislating, the prosperity of a people, the law-makers voted the restriction. "Talk of labor and economy," they said, "what is the use of these painful means of increasing the national wealth, when all that is wanted for this object is a decree?

in the social sciences authorities are rarely acknowledged. As each individual daily acts upon his own notions whether right or wrong, of morals, hygiene, and economy; of politics, whether reasonable or absurd, each one thinks he has a right to prattle, comment, decide, and dictate in these matters.