Economy Quotes - Page 19

The Russian economy is about the size of the Italian economy; it's very small, and Russia's military force is larger than it was, because Putin's been investing in it, but it still doesn't compare to that of the United States, and his reach and aim still don't compare.

There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability.

Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

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.

Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

Part of the reason we're all committed to coordinated stimulus is we want to stimulate the global economy. We're in a global economy, not just our national economies.p

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

No economy ever stands still.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

Peeves do not make very good pets.

The economy is like a machine.

You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.

Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.

If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.

It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.

Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay.

Yes to market economy, no to market society.