Quotes About Economy

In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So not only does it create jobs once: the investment creates jobs multiple times.

If you look across the economy, if you have multiple players in an industry, you have more customization, more innovation, greater choice for consumers. The more you have consolidation, the less likely you are to invest in innovation. It becomes all about driving down cost and mass production. And that's not good for innovation in an industry.

I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.

It is important that China stop its over-reliance on municipal debt to finance infrastructure. I take comfort in the fact that China's leaders understand this.

I suppose we don't know that much about how the music business operates in the U.K., but from what I've heard, it's a pretty big deal.

There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business.

In the Depression, big musicals made a comeback.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

Without doubt, Malaysia is the great economic star of the Muslim world.

My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.

Mexico is much bigger than NAFTA.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

I think a lot of scapegoating has been done on NAFTA. The reality is, a lot of the jobs have been lost mostly to technology. And that is something that happens well beyond the reach of NAFTA or any other trade agreement.

NAFTA is a trilateral agreement, and it would make a lot of sense to have trilateral discussions.

A scenario without NAFTA is something we have to think about.

If NAFTA goes away, it's not the end of the world. It certainly is not the end of trade between Mexico and the United States.

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

Obviously, what we had under the original NAFTA was very good. Canada prospered greatly from it.

Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.

Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.

For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature.

The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it's not because of NASA.