Quotes About Economy

The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

President Trump is growing the economy, growing our jobs market, creating new value in the stock market.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.

Dead-low interest rates are great for stocks. They don't run up, they creep up.

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.

Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.

Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.

Corporate share prices should not be driven by political tax games. Profits, not Washington shenanigans, should be the mother's milk of stocks. And this shouldn't be a partisan political issue.

Businesses and households react to lower rates by investing and spending more. Lower rates also support the prices of housing and financial assets such as stocks and bonds.

September 2001 turned out to be an unusually bad time to sell stocks: By New Year's Day 2002, little more than three months after the post-9/11 low reached on Sept. 21, the S&P 500 had gained close to 20 percent.

Stocks actually can be a very good hedge against inflation, and short of hyperinflation, stocks will have the ability to increase their dividends to match the rise in prices.

From logos to software - you name it, the Chinese have stolen it - and they'll keep stealing it, if left unchecked.

In early 2008, before the criminal greed of America's mortgage and investment bank industry nearly destroyed the world's economy, the balance sheet of the U.S. Federal Reserve stood at about $870 billion.

I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.

The illegal 2003 invasion had little to do with liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Instead, the real freedoms and benefits were destined to go to corporations like Halliburton and others that stood to gain from the privatisation of the formerly state-owned Iraqi economy.

Trump stood up to the failed Biden trade doctrine that filled our shelves with Chinese goods and loaded our ships with American jobs headed overseas.

The next generation is going to have to understand that Social Security is just one leg of a stool. We need to actually bring back that savings incentive, and the only way you're going to be able to do that is if you have a job.