Quotes About Economy

The number of unemployed citizens "without a high school diploma increased by 18.7 percent while the number of unemployed foreign-born persons decreased by 24.8 percent."37 Despite the supposed economic recovery "following the Great Recession, employers continued to favor illegal alien labor despite millions of less-educated Americans who were unemployed.

The nation's fiscal operating debt was already $10.6 trillion on the day President Barack Obama took office in January 2009. By the end of January 2012, however, the fiscal operating debt had increased 44.5 percent to $15.4 trillion. As of April 12, 2015, the fiscal operating debt was $18.152 trillion—a 71 percent increase in less than six and one half years.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Former petroleum industry analyst Jan Lundberg puts it this way, "The nation and most of the rest of the world is chasing a technofix instead of adjusting to ecological/economic reality.

In a sense we are born in hock: with the national debt hovering around $ 18 trillion, each new baby delivered in America takes her first breath owing approximately $ 57,000.

In capitalist economies that require continuous increase in consumption, voluntary poverty constitutes a threat to power. What keeps the gears spinning is income that is both taxable and disposable.

This system, in which paper money is worth only a fraction of its stated value in gold or silver, was employed in the United States into the twentieth century. Then

the wealth created by the reduction economy was not one of material things but of time.

When the central bank lowers interest rates below what they would have reached on the market, it sets in motion a series of responses by investors and consumers that will prove to be incompatible. The result is the recession, which is the economy's return to health: the economy's unsustainable configuration is unwound, and resources (including labor) are reallocated to lines of production that make sense in terms of resource availability and consumer preferences.

When the central bank lowers interest rates below what they would have reached on the market, it sets in motion a series of responses by investors and consumers that will prove to be incompatible.

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.

Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: "First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package."

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world

Natural gas is the future. It is here.

If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.

In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.