Economy Quotes - Page 31

We have a chance for racial solidarity because all of us, unless you`re in the top 1 percent, are really struggling in this economy.

[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

The United States and China have both beefed up their naval presence in Southeast Asia, leading to fears of a military confrontation. This is just one example of China flexing its military muscle in recent months, and it coincides with a slowdown in the nation's economy.

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see.

Negative effects on the economy were covered up with a flood of liquidity from the Fed. That,plus lax regulation, led to a housing bubble, a consumption boom - but we were living on borrowed money. It was inevitable that there would be a day of reckoning, and it has now come. We will be paying the costs "with interest".

The analysis in the era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher was that government was interfering with the efficiency of the economy through protectionism, government subsidies, and government ownership. Once the government "got out of the way," private markets would allocate resources efficiently and generate robust growth. Development would simply come.

The crisis was 2008, in 2015 - almost eight years later and the gap between where we would have been and where we are is huge and not closing. The implied unemployment rate is very high, labour force participation is very low, and the increase in wages in the second quarter was the lowest in 25 years. Before this turmoil, the U.S. economy was in better shape than Europe or Canada, but not strong.

People at the top spend less money than those at the bottom so when you have redistribution toward the top, aggregate demand goes down. Unless you intervene, you're going to have a weak economy unless something else happens. That something else could be a bubble. The United States tried a tech bubble and a housing bubble, but those were not sustainable answers. So I view inequality as a fundamental part of our macroeconomic weakness.

Our economy has not served large fractions of our population. Trump grasped that. And rather than saying, "What have we not done right?" he said, "It's those foreigners. Let's build a wall." He says globalization is unfair to the United States.

There was a hope then by some people that what we call trickle-down economics would work. That if you made the economy pie bigger, everybody would benefit. Twenty-five years after NAFTA, we know that that is not true. We should have known then that it was not true.

Everybody is talking today about the economy.

The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future.

Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.

I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.

I always think of the economy as going down a pretty broad road that has mud on either side - for inflation and deflation. What hurts the market is when we unexpectedly swerve into one of those mud banks.

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.