Quotes About Economy

People are waiting in line for 15 years before they get rejected, O.K.? That's why people don't want to invest in America.

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax] for the middle income. The middle class in this country has been decimated.

Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.

Since you can never crush a black market the next best thing is to run it

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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

And to come back to the economy for a moment, the lifetime distribution of firms is also a power law. Now

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

It was in '35—we had this campaign to raise a million tax dollars. In the town of Phillips, one evening, during a blizzard, I was met by a crowd of miners. They were given the day off and a stake to attend this meeting. They surrounded me and said this tax would cost six hundred of them their jobs. They were busted farmers and fortunately found a job in these Home Stake mines. I went back home feeling worried. But the tax was passed, and not a single miner lost his job.

The worst day-to-day operators of businesses are bankers.

I think that so-called capitalism and trade is a very important element in giving people opportunity.

Some of the issues with identity politics are critical moral issues. But we've got to show America that we don't have a plan just on these so-called identity politics issues, but that we have a plan for the economy, that we know how to provide for a strong national defense.

Farmers will not see good days unless their produce gets a guaranteed price. Even a notebook, a pen, or a soap has a price printed on it, but the milk that farmers sell do not have any price.

Prices always soar when there is a Congress government.

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

We need sobriety, rationality, and civility in the discussions on the regulation of financial institutions so that the banks can return in a robust manner to their central role in funding the economy.

Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.

We see bitcoin as potentially the greatest social network of all.

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.