Quotes About Economy

The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid

My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home.

In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

We're in the midst of a boom in home-based businesses, and it shows no sign of slowing.

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.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.