Quotes About Economy

Cities need to change the way they grow. Urban areas are home to more than half the people on earth—a proportion that will rise in the years ahead—and they're responsible for more than three-quarters of the world's economy. As they expand, many of the world's fast-growing cities end up building over floodplains, forests, and wetlands that could absorb rising waters during a storm or hold reservoirs of water during a drought.

The countries that build great zero-carbon companies and industries will be the ones that lead the global economy in the coming decades.

China makes a lot of cement. The country has already produced more in the 21st century than the United States did in the entire 20th century. (U.S. Geological Survey)

It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really need and are really a bargain, like gas and postage stamps, but we willingly shell out outrageous amounts for unnecessary crap like gourmet coffee and soap to make your crotch smell good. Two dollars a gallon to go ten miles is too much, but five to the parking valet to go ten feet is okay.

This is the opposite of the free market.

We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price--but not when it comes to gas. When it comes to gas, we need it cheap, and the president had better get it for us, or else, we don't care how.

Mattis and Gary Cohn had several quiet conversations about The Big Problem: The president did not understand the importance of allies overseas, the value of diplomacy or the relationship between the military, the economy and intelligence partnerships with foreign governments.

The Big Problem: The president did not understand the importance of allies overseas, the value of diplomacy or the relationship between the military, the economy and intelligence partnerships with foreign governments.

from shithole countries come here?" He had just met with the prime minister of Norway. Why not more Norwegians? Or Asians who could help the economy? Durbin was sickened. Graham was floored.

We're going to put a tariff on all steel and aluminum, on everything coming in," the president said, "and see what happens." This approach drove Gary Cohn, the chief White House economic adviser, crazy. He had argued passionately that the American economy was too important to haphazardly experiment with.

One day in the Oval Office, Cohn brought in the latest job numbers to Trump and Pence. "I have the most perfect job numbers you're ever going to see," Cohn said. "It's all because of my tariffs," Trump said. "They're working." Trump had yet to impose any tariffs, but he believed they were a good idea and knew Cohn disagreed with him.

sucked the manufacturing lifeblood out of the U.S. just as Trump predicted

Forty-four percent of Americans did not pay federal income tax.

If you want our trade deficit to go down, we can make that happen. Let's just blow up the economy!

The employment picture was so favorable that the United States would run out of workers soon.

Number one," Bannon went on, "we're going to stop mass illegal immigration and start to limit legal immigration to get our sovereignty back. Number two, you are going to bring manufacturing jobs back to the country. And number three, we're going to get out of these pointless foreign wars.

Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't compete

It was on the back of cotton, and thus on the backs of slaves, that the U.S. economy ascended in the world (p.119).

our journey through the empire of cotton has shown that civilization and barbarity are linked at the hip

When we think of capitalism, we think of wage workers, yet this prior phase of capitalism was based not on free labor but on slavery.

The modern world, indeed, has been shaped just as much by war capitalism's death as by its birth.

by 1905, cotton experts estimated, a full 15 million people, or about 1 percent of the world's population, were engaged in the growing of cotton.

By 1830, one in six workers in Britain labored in cottons.

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.