Economics Quotes (2156 Quotes)

These census results show that the economic structure is actually better and healthier than our previous judgment.

Gross abusers of e-mail risk exposure to public ridicule as well as the economic death penalty.

I have always been interested in healthcare. Through my experience in economic and community development, I have grown to understand the importance of health care, especially in rural northwestern Minnesota.

It's certainly feasible, but it's my guess it's not economic, ... My guess is it is cheaper for the airline to absorb this loss, which doesn't happen often, than to fix the problem.

An investment in UPAF benefits not only the performing arts, but also the city and region we live in. Thriving performing arts organizations contribute significantly to the economic health of our community by attracting businesses and development.

Right now business stinks, consumer confidence is down, the travel industry is suffering and the economic reports haven't been good and any economic recovery is going to be linked to the war. There haven't been too many first-quarter negative pre-announcements, but I'm still worried about corporate profits in the first quarter.

The weight of the evidence of the economic and news factors is not compelling and it's increasing the caution and concern in the market. There is very little reason to be buying the market right now.

It's simply too difficult to quantify at this stage what kind of economic impact any of these policies will have because who knows if they will ever make it through Congress. But from both a market point of view and from an economic point of view, the best possible scenario would be gridlock. It means they have to come together and do something more reasonable than more extreme. And that's what everyone out there wants.

Consumers anticipated that higher interest rates will ultimately slow the overall pace of economic growth.

He was a pivotal figure in the transition of this county from a bedroom community to an economic center in its own right.

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

Today is encouraging, but it's not particularly meaningful. We still have a lot of economic and earnings news to get through this week.

When budget times are tight, like they were in 2001 after 911 and after the economic downturn, states will raise taxes.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

Perhaps the single best piece of economic news in 2005 was that record-high energy prices did not spill over into the rest of the economy. While the Fed can be relaxed about inflationary risks in the U.S. economy, its role is to preempt.

The Christmas Price Index reflects the economic trends that we have witnessed during the past year,

After the market rallied hard on the Fed minutes earlier this week, the perception had been building that good, but not strong, economic data is positive because that signals the Fed having to raise rates less. It's one of those cases where good news is bad news for the economy.

The main vulnerability here is the high and growing level of indebtedness. This poses dangers because, notwithstanding current robust economic growth in Ireland, there are domestic and external risks to the economic outlook.

The Committee is placing more weight on current data releases and, therefore, less weight on forecasts of economic activity and inflation. What I'm foreseeing is that the Fed is going to keep on tightening due to the economy being stronger in the first half of the year.

In the next few weeks, if the earnings pre-announcement period goes smoothly, which I think it will, and the economic news keeps showing improvement, I think we can make some gains. I don't think we're going to rip-roar higher, but I think we could still make some choppy gains through the end of the year, maybe hit those psychological round numbers by the end of the year -- 2,000 on the Nasdaq, 10,000 on the Dow.

If he continues to believe that a flat curve is indicative of economic weakness, the hand-off may be one in which we stop at 4.5 percent.

A fundamental principle of our economic system is that the benefits of economic growth will flow to those responsible for their creation. When how fast your income grows depends on your position in the income scale, this principle is violated. In that sense, today's unprecedented gap between the growth of the typical family's income and productivity is our most pressing economic problem.

The risk of price declines has increased somewhat, but the national and local economies remain strong, which should support a gradual return to an economic climate characterized by slow, steady appreciation.

I think the market is responding pretty well to the reports and also positioning itself ahead of the economic news due later in the week,

I'm looking for faster growth on the basis that the improvement in employment and wages is going to continue, ... It looks as if just about everything that could go right is going right with the economic outlook.

The loss in people's sense of personal security was linked to the decline in consumer confidence. Unlike other assessments of economic risks, these fears represent a significant threat to the usual functioning of the economy.

In short, chemistry and chemical engineering contribute in critical ways to the economic strength, security, and well being of the nation.

Well, for a nine year old kid to be able to earn 110 in one day compared to 10 for a paper round, the economics were even obvious to a ten year old.

No collective-bargaining agreement is going to override the economic burden of our arena deal, now or in the future, ... But at the end of 2010, our lease is over. It's not that long.

The market was taking its cue from investors' mood outside. There was concern about the economic numbers that came out today.

We probably are at the bottom of the economic cycle and that would suggest that there is some modest light at the end of the tunnel particularly in terms of an improving export backdrop, ... The euro is at a much more competitive level than we were seeing at the tail end of last year.

There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.

Larry Summers is the economic conscience of Rubin. He is the economic half of that team. Rubin had market smarts and the political savvy Larry Summers was, in many ways, the economic mastermind here.

Economists are notoriously bad at predicting turning points. They're like credit ratings agencies, they don't anticipate things very well.

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

When you're an economist trained in conceptual stuff, you tend to be less intuitive. You fall back on this conceptual framework that the profession has invested a lot of time in.

In terms of economic and social influence there is no other company that's had a greater impact on the lives of people in this country and in the 20th century than Ford.

Being partners with education means bringing business volunteers in to our schools to show that the economics of life and business are relevant to present and future success.

An investor today should be doing what an investor should always be doing, and that is thinking about what the economic environment is likely to be going forward. There is not a recession likely here anytime soon.

Greenspan saying he's optimistic about an economic recovery is as positive as it gets. He may as well jump up and down on Times Square ringing a bell.

We don't want to discount the tension in the area ... but from our perspective, we view it as something that can have a positive impact. If you talk to the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, this is exactly the kind of thing they want. They want education, they want paths to improve the economic well-being of their citizens.

Given the track record of the Bush administration, he's done all right by the Fed. But with these next two vacancies, I'd like to see him bring in some people with the capacity to think independently about economics.

What we're seeing today is a very long-term trend asserting itself - people abandoning the euro and buying the U. S. economic miracle, ... OPEC's decision is not helping the euro much today either.

Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.

The market is adjusting to the fact that corporate profits may not be as high as was previously thought and that the economic recovery may move at a slower pace than it did in the first quarter.

It was spending patterns of the state historically during 10 years of unprecedented economic prosperity. States began simply to assume that economic growth was going to continue in perpetuity. So part of it was realigning state spending to be much more realistic, to understand the reality of the economic cycle. But here in the state of New Jersey, we confronted the realities of the national economy. Income tax revenues are down 13 percent,

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it.

The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.