Quotes About Economy

Byron Wien, for decades one of the most influential voices on Wall Street, taught Israel how to understand macroeconomic questions like the difference between gross national product and gross domestic product. The government had switched the leading economic indicator from GNP to GDP, Wien explained to Israel, as a way to make it seem that the economy was growing faster—official sleight of hand understood by very few.

Luego de la represión del movimiento estudiantil de 1968, un sentimiento de agravio levantó sombras de ilegitimidad y amagos de violencia sobre la solidez, de apariencia monolítica, del régimen. La crisis económica de 1982, que significó la quiebra de las finanzas públicas, erosionó seriamente el acuerdo de la sociedad con los gobiernos priistas y, por tanto, con la legitimidad de su pacto sucesorio.

El dominio sobre la economía local y sus rentas es efectivo también. A semejanza de lo que hace con los alcaldes, Servando Gómez, La Tuta, puede convocar a una asamblea de productores de aguacate, limón o ganado, para fijarles las cuotas que van a pagar por sus huertos y ranchos. Más tarde, La Familia tendrá el control directo de los huertos

Al final, los intereses estratégicos de la cohesión social y de la ganancia son convergentes. Ambas requieren una economía de mercado pujante y un Estado fuerte.

La debilidad fundadora de todas las otras debilidades del Estado mexicano es su penuria fiscal.

Se puede tener un Estado barato con pocas obligaciones o un Estado caro con muchas. En México pretendemos tener un Estado barato con muchas obligaciones.

La crisis de 1982 marca el inicio de lo que será la gran transformación política de fines del siglo XX. Esa transformación tiene el rostro de la democracia en el ámbito político y del neoliberalismo en el económico.

Even when money seemed to be material treasure, heavy in pockets and ships' holds and bank vaults, it always was information. Coins and notes, shekels and cowries were all just short-lived technologies for tokenizing information about who owns what.

The collapse of the economy, the systemic spread of fear, the threat of imagined foreign adversaries would probably be enough to pull it off. But one way or another

Of course people live in the short run, and the average worker trying to make ends meet during economic downturns in, say, 1841 or 1857 lacked the molifying perspective of an historian.

1860 the South's share of national wealth was 30 percent; in 1870 it was only 12 percent.

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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.

Unfortunately, this will have a ripple effect in the economy. People carrying heavy student-loan debt won't buy houses, start families, or start businesses. This will hurt the future economy.

Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'

Imagine a government which has delivered double-digit growth rates for over seven years losing an election anywhere on earth. It is unheard of for such a phenomenon to happen.

We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification.

To me, what success looks like is not to believe that Afghanistan can become a unified, Western-style democracy with a developed-country economy just yet. I think success in the American interest is some level of assurance that it's not going to be a place that again leads to an attack on the American homeland.

The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.

We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed.

Lawmakers who interfere with commerce and the normal creation of jobs in an economy run the risk of doing harm rather than good. Unintended consequences from regulating or legislating to achieve a goal can occur and cause havoc in the markets or an economy.