Quotes About Economy

It is interesting to speculate whether commercial capitalism was thereby smothered in its crib in Egypt, just at a moment when it was beginning to take off in other places such as Italy, the Netherlands, and England.24 On

As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente perigoso e se correr riscos excessivos pode acarretar custos enormes à economia no seu todo.

The rule of law is critical for economic development; without clear property rights and contract enforcement, it is difficult for businesses to break out of small circles of trust.

He created, in the words of historian Hans Rosenberg, "a first-rate army which had to be supported by a country which was third-rate in terms of manpower, natural wealth, capital supply, and economic skills.

Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

En 1986, en momentos que representaban las nuevas fuerzas del periodo post oligárquico, la prensa acuñó el término «doce apóstoles» de la economía peruana cuando los doce mayores empresarios fueron convocados por el presidente Alan García para discutir el rumbo que el país debía tomar.

No se debe perder de vista que en 1921 (diecisiete años antes de la expropiación, durante el gobierno de Álvaro Obregón), la producción alcanzó la cifra de 193 000 millones de barriles, un éxito notable que sólo sería superado medio siglo después. En

Cuánto daño, y todavía se reverencia e idolatra a uno de los más grandes destructores de la economía nacional! Casi se le reza ante los altares de la patria a este soñador suicida que hundió más en la miseria a quien deseaba ayudar. Cárdenas nos condujo al infierno, eso sí, con paternal cariño…

My adversary is the world of finance.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

Were crimes respected? Well, yes. In a sense they were. They gave employment, do you see, to a vast number of people -- policemen, judges, lawyers and such like, who would otherwise have had no place in society.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do.

In early 1994 Mexico was hot. The U.S. had recently passed NAFTA—the North American Free Trade Agreement—and bankers were racing south to Mexico City. The Emerging Markets Traders Association said 1993 trading volume was $1.5 trillion, double the previous year, and Latin American derivatives were the fastest growing portion of the derivatives market. Monthly trading of Latin American derivatives had increased to a face value of $25 billion in 1993 from $3 billion in 1992.

Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.

United States Note." minted across the top where the words, "Federal Reserve Note," traditionally were printed. Over $4,000,000 worth of bills were placed into circulation between June 1963 and November 1963.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

It is not a tax bill but a tax relief bill providing relief not for the needy but for the greedy.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.