Quotes About Stimulus

If there's no input, there's no output!

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.

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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

then monetary policy has at best only short-lived effects on output and employment.

On the demand side, tax cuts should lead to more consumer spending—although by how much depends on the form of the cuts and who receives them—

I expressed no preference for whether the stimulus should take the form of tax cuts, spending increases, or both.

Tight fiscal policies were arguably offsetting much of the effect of our monetary efforts.

thereby supporting the flow of credit to households and businesses.

I know it's hard to think of a $787 billion package as small, but its size must be compared with its objective of helping to arrest the deepest recession in seventy years in a $15 trillion U.S. economy.

while the effect of Treasury purchases would be more broad-based.)

work and help stave off deflation.

to support the flow of credit to households and businesses.

would permit us to more aggressively loosen policy in support of job creation.

With little room to cut the funds rate further, how could we put downward pressure on longer-term rates?

I'm hoping there'll be, if not a boom, then a big pick-up in housing because if that happens, then it will employ a lot of people, and the domino effect will go through the community, and it will help everyone.

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe.

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

Once an economy reaches a certain level of acceleration... the Fed is no longer with you... The Fed, instead of trying to get the economy moving, reverts to acting like the central bankers they are and starts worrying about inflation and things getting too hot.

In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite - shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on.

If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.

The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.

We may think the following a prime example of a response to a stimulus: I clap my hands, and the cat shies away, hiding under the sofa. The following is just as good an example: I throw the cat into the fire, and she burns to ashes.' The first is a life-process: it is something that plays a certain role in a cat's life. The second is not: it is a purely physical process which the cat undergoes.

Cheese crumbs spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the female, but not the male.