Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes
Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
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Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.
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I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.
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There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.
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It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
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So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
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I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.
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Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.
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We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say
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I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing is infinitely harder. Especially with the economics of serious fiction being what they are in America.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.
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In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.
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“Fundamentalist preaching may and sometimes does induce a dramatically changed life, but its converts tend to be judgemental and elitist. And fundamentalism deadens the mind. Who can measure the psychological warping that can stem from constant exposure to a black/white, right/wrong, sinner/saved outlook on life?”
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Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.
