Quotes About Economy

The first is the extreme brevity of the financial memory. In consequence, financial disaster is quickly forgotten.

In the modern economy, a slightly bizarre fact, production is now more necessary for the employment it provides than for the goods and services it supplies.

The rule will often be here reiterated: financial genius is before the fall.

Leverage was magnificently available

For a long time the New York Stock Exchange looked with suspicion on the investment trusts; only in 1929 was fisting permitted.

All wealth is the product of labor.

China is now Asia's least equal society with 1% of the population controlling more than a third of the country's wealth, most of which is tied up in property. Alarmingly, China's property vacancy rate is estimated to be 22%, suggesting that 49m homes are sitting empty and have been bought by wealthy speculators. That equates to around 30% of all apartments sold in the past decade. How long can the bubble continue given such a large number of empty and expensive apartments?

Trust is needed also in transactions that take time to complete. People are reluctant to invest in the absence of some assurance that the others' promises will be kept. For these and other reasons, a modern market economy needs a platform sturdy enough to support highly complex dealings.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.

If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more money in education.

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

Of course their [Cuba's] economy is terrible, but they have Health Care and education.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world's wealth.

We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of oil a day.

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.