Quotes About Economy

If President Obama is re-elected, he will continue to spend more money than we take in and to expand a debt that's already on the verge of being unsalvageable. That's a future that should frighten every American, no matter what their generation.

The Badals have grown richer while Punjab is on the verge of bankruptcy.

The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.

I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.

Our partnership with Quebec plays an important role in our work to grow Vermont's economy, retain and attract businesses to Vermont, and help workers and businesses thrive.

Vermont farmers are contributing to our economy and keeping our landscape beautiful and productive.

I believe an open Internet is essential to the flow of information, goods and services that will grow Vermont's economy.

Our Canadian friends who live in border towns are integral to the fabric of Vermont, and they create economic opportunity for both sides of the border.

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.

If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

Our complimentary dinner that evening was really quite nice. I have always found that free meals taste just a little bit better, and after two days of the rapacious greed of the Key West economy, this was succulent indeed. And

Mr. President, is there such incompatibility of interest between the two sections of this country that they can not profitably live together? Does the agriculture of the South injure the manufactures of the North? On the other hand, are they not their life-blood? And think you, if one portion of the Union, however great it might be in commerce and manufactures, was separated from all the agricultural districts, that it would long maintain its supremacy

you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

There were two good reasons why Kelley preferred to thumb a ride back to Stanford rather than take a bus or train. Twelve round trips a year meant she could save over a hundred dollars, which her father could ill afford after being laid off by the water company. In any case he and Ma had already made quite enough sacrifices to

With higher saving and investment rates, both public and private, directed towards productive capital, the United States could overcome secular stagnation.

The combination of higher income taxation and wealth taxation would thereby raise at least 2 percentage points of GDP from the very top earners. But even if they had to pay another 2 percent of GDP, there would certainly be no need to shed tears for the rich. Their net-of-tax income would remain around 10 percent of GDP, a share of national income two-thirds higher than the 6 percent of GDP in 1980. There

Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger found that the proportion of people working in alternative work arrangements had increased some 50 percent in the ten years from 2005 to 2015. Moreover, "94 percent of the net employment growth in the US economy from 2005 to 2015 appears to have occurred in alternative work arrangements."4

You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finally weed out all the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

What's funny is that everyone's so appalled by the notion of hitchhiking now, yet it's totes fine if we pay five dollars for the privilege of riding in a stranger's Lyft.

Turns out, half of all millennials have at least occasional side hustles.

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

This means that for the past thirty years, we have been wasting 86 percent of the energy we use in the production of goods and services.

We think of GDP as a measure of the wealth that a country generates each year. But from a thermodynamic point of view, it is more a measure of the temporary energy value embedded in the goods or services produced at the expense of the diminution of the available energy reserves and an accumulation of entropic waste. Since