Quotes About Economic

If there is value in the standardized, performance-based curriculums utilized by the vast majority of schools, that value is realized primarily by the institutions themselves and by the economic and social structures that are fed by standardized learning.

There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don't have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.

had helped make the Depression as terrible as it was.

The deflation of the 1930s led to widespread bankruptcies and defaults, gravely worsening an already bad situation.

We must take into account not only the current inflation rate but also the prospects for inflation a few quarters ahead, when the effects of policy decisions will actually be felt

and I didn't expect any meaningful economic damage.

The failure of this firm was unlikely to have a broad economic impact, and so we believed a 13(3) loan was not justified.

The decision would depend on economic developments, especially on the persistence of inflation.

The only way to contain the economic damage of a financial fire is to put it out, even though it's almost impossible to do that without helping some of the people who caused it.

Greenspan was known for his economic forecasting skills, having run a successful consulting firm,

Recessions can be triggered by many causes, or combinations of causes.

an inflation rate low enough that households and businesses did not take it into account when making economic decisions.

They condemned bailouts as giveaways of taxpayer money without considering the broader economic consequences of the collapse of systemically important firms.

My colleagues and I also were uncertain about the economic consequences of the war, especially its effect on energy prices.

the Committee would take a "balanced approach" in pursuing both price stability and maximum employment.

and because U.S. fiscal policy, although a headwind during most of the recovery, was less restrictive than elsewhere.

It is no use blaming working people or the unions if they have to work in ancient factories with obsolete equipment producing old-fashioned goods at unecomonic prices and earning low wages as well. Working people not only are not responsible for the weakness of British manufacturing industry. They have hitherto been denied the tools and tackle that they needed to put it right.

Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security.

I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India's citizens and the world.

There's every reason to think that whatever their political leanings, Americans will be highly receptive to numerous reforms designed to improve health, safety, economic security, environmental quality and democratic self-government - at least if those reforms do not eliminate their freedom of choice.

If I take you back to the Nineties, our party came up with very bold reforms in the country, economic reforms. They were really revolutionary reforms.

The Blair government perhaps ranks as the best the U.K. has had for 50 years. It cannot match the scale of Attlee's reforms, but has a fine record of constitutional reform and economic competence. In my own areas - science and innovation - there have been well-judged and effective changes.