Economy Quotes
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Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
Anthony Hope
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Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?
Arthur Laffer
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California's coastal economy and environment are just as important as Florida's.
Lois Capps
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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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While there have been some encouraging signs that Japan's economy is declining less sharply, most forecasters do not see a recovery this year or into next.
Lael Brainard
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I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Sanford I. Weill
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If I am confirmed by the Senate I will do everything in my power, in collaboration with by Fed colleagues to help assure the continued prosperity and stability of the American economy.
Ben Bernanke
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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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I think it's important to take a look behind the numbers, ... As the economy gains steam and people gain confidence about their job prospects they will declare themselves back in the job market and the unemployment rate may increase. That's I think what we're seeing today.
Elaine Chao
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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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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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After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.
Ben Bernanke
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The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
Alice Rivlin
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The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.
Anthony Giddens
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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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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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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.
Brooks Stevens
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The resilience of the economy ... is helping it to absorb the shocks to energy and transportation from the hurricanes.
Ben Bernanke
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When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.
Henry Paulson
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Yes, we should consider ways to address the deficit and bring real, direct relief to the gulf region, ... but we must not lose sight of maintaining the infrastructure that supports our economy and way of life.
Olympia Snowe
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You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.
Anthony Robbins
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The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
Joshua Lederberg
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Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.
Alexander Stille
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We British have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.
James Goldsmith