Quotes About Economy

Capitalism is founded on greed and envy

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Hay sociedades donde los más ricos necesitan que los más pobres sean menos pobres, donde los precisan para crear o consumir las riquezas que los enriquecen. Nuestras economías, basadas en la extracción y exportación de materias primas, pueden funcionar más allá de esos millones de personas que no son necesarias ni para producir ni para consumir. Solo se necesita contenerlas:

este país el sector que más creció en los últimos veinte años no es la tecnología, no es el software; es la desigualdad, que creció más que en ningún otro momento de nuestra historia.

In today's global economy, two billion people – more than 61 per cent of the world's employed population – make their living in the informal economy (ILO 2018a).

In theory, capitalism is an economic system that allows people to freely trade goods and services in a competitive free market. But since the outright ownership of land creates an entry monopoly, it restricts the operation of the free market... Consequently, our current implementation of capitalism is deeply responsible for the exploitation of nature and the decline of social well-being.

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

A nickel's worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines.

Some innovations just don't attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in 2002) the potentialities of broadband (G3) technology are being taken up rather slowly because few people want to surf the Internet or watch movies from their mobile phones.

If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a primary virtue out of exactitude and economy of meaning: this has replaced metrical skill as the first thing the poet tunes to.

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

America's current economic decline must be halted, or else one day the crime that is rampant in the streets of New York and Washington, D.C. may develop into low intensity conflict by coalescing along racial, religious, social, and political lines, and run completely out of control

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

We live in a global economy where voracious political and corporate greed has turned your life into a disposable commodity to be used and discarded.

Look after the pennies, and the pounds always looked after themselves.

If we can't find valuable work, it's not because we're in a recession; we're in a recession because we can't find valuable work. We've been confusing cause and effect.

and proletarii (those without property – whose contribution to the city was the production of offspring, proles).

one dollar for every ton of waste.