Quotes About Economy

When people scratch their heads and wonder how it can be that the stock market is booming and executive compensation is at an all-time high but the overall economy is less dynamic and workers are not benefiting, look no further than the trillions of dollars in stock buybacks.

A system that is amoral and imbecilic enough to compel selling Amazon's stock because it invested in protecting its workers during a pandemic is not one that we should trust to steward the overall health and well-being of our economy.

A dozen years ago, the size of the cybersecurity market was just $3.5 billion. Research reports valued the global cybersecurity market at $64 billion in 2011 and $78 billion in 2015; they project it to be at $120 billion by 2017. ...I expect the total market size of the cybersecurity to increase even faster, reaching $175 billion by the end of 2017.

The companies on the original Fortune 500 list earned a combined $8.3 billion in profit in 1955 (approximately $79 billion in 2019 dollars). In 2019, the Fortune 500 came out $1.2 trillion in the black. But instead of raising wages for workers or lowering prices for consumers, modern companies direct more of their gains to shareholders.

Ma Ravenna era anche un prospero centro commerciale, capoluogo di un entroterra ricco di pascoli e vigneti, vicino al mare e circondato di saline e peschiere, che garantivano al comune cospicue entrate daziarie; anche se i traffici, incentrati sull'esportazione di sale, pesce e vino, erano gestiti soprattutto da mercanti veneziani, e veneziana era la moneta corrente

California has about 40 million people. Since the epidemic began almost five months ago, the state has had about 9,000 deaths from the virus, none in anyone under 18. That's correct: Not one person under the age of 18 has died in the largest American state from Sars-Cov-2. Yet California's economy and society remain crippled.

Economic crises breed war.

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and haulers of water.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of it, as far as the resources of the community will permit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution.

You cannot build a sustainable local economy on the back of people's suffering.

They call this place a farm — but no farmer could possibly make a living from it these days, no matter how hard he worked.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

This is his solution: He said all we need to do is take your tax dollars, send them to Washington, have Washington take out its cut, having Washington then send it back to the states, have the states then go out and hire public employees. Does that make sense to you? Is that how to get the economy moving?

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.