Economy Quotes
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Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.
Ben Bernanke
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Even the most well-meaning government policies have unintended consequences that have harmed the economy. If government policies were today held accountable the way private businesses are, the scoreboard would say government is failing to help people...and this is a fact.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
Albert Shanker
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We're much more data-driven. We need to continually re-evaluate our forecasts and think about the prospects for the economy and make our decisions based on what the information is that's coming into our hands.
Ben Bernanke
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I was really happy in the Globe and - in the Globe and Mail debate, which was on the economy, that there were questions about infrastructure, about immigration, about housing. These things have often been seen as municipal issues, but they truly are pan-Canadian issues. Now, I'm not saying I'm happy with all the answers, but I'm happy that at least we're talking about them.
Naheed Nenshi
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In the shorter term, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina will have a palpable effect on the national economy.
Ben Bernanke
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People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.
George Gilder
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What's great to me is that we're building jobs, and we're really building northern Michigan's brand. We're helping the economy here.
Tim Rice-Oxley
Keane
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The outlook for interest rates is still positive. Canada's economy is still moving ahead, keeping expectations of higher rates alive.
Ian Stannard
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California's coastal economy and environment are just as important as Florida's.
Lois Capps
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When the state unraveled Yukos, officials insisted it was a single such case rather than a trend. But it soon became obvious that Yukos was not a single case, that this concerns the entire economy.... Yukos was a campaign, which is intensifying weekly.
Andrey Illarionov
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most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.
Alice Rivlin
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I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.
Will Sheff
Okkervil River
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The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
Alice Rivlin
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund Burke
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I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.
2 Chainz
