Quotes About Economy

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for.

By issuing our own money we can eliminate all income taxes and employment taxes and the national debt would cease to exist.

Globalization is a strategy of liberalization that becomes an economic nightmare for the poor

They use everything about the hog except the squeal.

If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

the world now consumes in one year nearly as much steel as it did during the first post-World War II decade, and (even more incredibly) more cement than it consumed during the first half of the twentieth century.

Could such a shift be accomplished without eventually converting to a no-growth economy and reducing the current global population? For individuals, this would mean a no less revolutionary delinking of social status from material consumption.

But if today's low-income countries are to move from poverty to an incipient affluence... then none of those factors could make a difference without the rising consumption of fuels and electricity: a decoupling of economic growth and energy consumption during early stages of modern economic development would defy the laws of thermodynamics." (p. 350, italics added)

Without the low operating costs, high efficiency, high reliability, and great durability of diesel engines, it would have been impossible to reach the extent of globalization that now defines the modern economy.

despite the decline in consumer spending brought on by the greatest economic downturn since World War II, the difference between jobs in manufacturing and in retail had reached nearly three million workers, a depressing reality of a failing economy where most new opportunities were low-paid, part-time positions to sell Chinese apparel and electronics bought on credit.

That looks nice." said Kit. "The toast does, too." "Just some tricks I've learned," Mother said. "Cutting the toast in triangles makes it look like there's more than there really is. And I'm hoping the peach slices will distract our guests from the fact that we've had oatmeal four times this week already. But it's cheap, and it's filling.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth's resources and living processes.

Simplicity and nonviolence are the basis of an economy of wellbeing, and such an economy must be localised.

The business of grabbing and money-making, through a violent extractive economy that the 1% have built, is burdening the earth and humanity with unbearable and non-sustainable costs, and has brought us to the brink of extinction. We do not have to escape from the earth; we have to escape from the illusions that enslave our minds and make extinction look inevitable.

Centralized economic systems also erode the democratic base of politics. In a democracy, the economic agenda is the political agenda.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labour that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.2

Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men's mentality – in their opinion about femininity – women's equality may not be possible.

Hong Kong flu The 1968 Hong Kong flu killed about the same proportion of the US population as the virus which appeared in 2020. The mortality rate was almost identical at 0.1%. There were no restrictions on movement. Hospital departments were not shut. The economy was not devastated.

Koire (Rosa) 'Agenda 21 is about destroying independence, culture, society, economy and human lives.

The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.

A 2015 US Federal Reserve Board report found that 47 percent of Americans would have to borrow money or sell something to cover a $400 emergency expense.