Quotes About Economy

OVER THE PAST two generations, America has suffered a quiet catastrophe. That catastrophe is the collapse of work—for men.

How big is the "men without work" problem today? Consider a single fact: in 2015, the work rate (or employment-to-population ratio) for American males ages twenty-five–to–fifty-four was slightly lower than it had been in 1940, which was at the tail end of the Great Depression.

services-dominant logic that argues the brand is co-created with consumers and the concept of the experience economy have shifted branding away from communications to personal interaction; from making promises to keeping them; from something run by the marketing department to an organization-wide operating principle.

The cotton gin made it possible to grow medium- and short-staple cotton commercially, which led to the spread of the cotton plantation from a small coastal area to most of the South. As cotton planting expanded, so did slavery, and slavery's becoming the central institution of the Southern economy was the central precondition of the Civil War. What

What the mechanical cotton picker did was make obsolete the sharecropper system, which arose in the years after the Civil War as the means by which cotton planters' need for a great deal of cheap labor was satisfied.

For this reason, within China the four state-owned banks in the 1980s were invariably referred to as "specialized banks" (????

If government subsidies to corporations were a sufficient criterion to label a country's economic system as "state capitalist," many market economies would qualify.

Fourth, even these aggregate targets are mainly labeled as "forecasts" (???) rather than "mandatory" (???).

If an equilibrium was invariably elusive in the real world, Hayek argued, then the a priori assumptions that theoretical economists make about the operation of an economy, or a market, tending toward an equilibrium would always fall short. An equilibrium can be predicted only if the intentions of each of the participants is known, and that is impossible both in theory and in practice.

When Reagan entered the White House, America was the world's largest creditor; by the time he retired to his Santa Barbara horse ranch, it had become the world's largest debtor, owing foreign lenders about $400 billion.

MEASURED IN THE BLOOD spilt in leadership challenges or the bile spewed daily in parliament, the developed world's most stable economy has produced the most volatile and petty politics.

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.

The crash of 2008 ought to have thrown a bucket of cold water over the excited futurologists. Open societies suffered far more than closed regimes. A member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was entitled to wonder why Americans were telling him he must allow free speech when China was booming and the First Amendment had not stopped debt-laden America going through a deep recession.

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

Let's face it, the only reason rock'n'roll guys are viewed as heroes in the first place is that they usually come from a country that hasn't recently been defeated in any war, where the economy is bountiful and where generally you find that their parents have given them virtually everything on a plate. Just so they can go out and play pop stars.

Personally, I don't bother with anything cheap—my mother always said cheap was dear in the long run—but some people aren't fussy.

La inflación trepó en 1967 al 41%. Y mientras que en la gestión de Alessandri el 50% de las inversiones eran hechas por el Estado, ya por 1966 las mismas ascendían al 80%. Crecía el desempleo, las acciones en la bolsa se desplomaban y comenzaba a aflorar un descontento que abarcaba a todas las clases sociales.

will not be priced in the stratosphere.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept Communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won't have to fight you; We'll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.

Great teachers should be paid like doctors or corporate attorneys. I worry about what will happen to our economy and our democracy if we don't start to take teachers' jobs seriously.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.