Economics Quotes (2156 Quotes)

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

We have to change the widespread idea that the economic miracle, the good times, are coming back. The German dream is over. Other countries are making cars as wonderful as German cars. We aren't better than the others anymore, and we're more expensive.

The president is right about the wisdom of conservation, and the need for the government to lead -- even if his own administration's energy policies make a mockery of Carter's wise conservation proposals of the 1970s. Sure some will dismiss Bush's conservation call as just the latest act of post-Katrina political theater scripted by Karl Rove. But who knows Perhaps Bush, who has staked his presidency on a global crusade to defend energy supplies from threats to the American way of life, ... If we fail to act soon, we will face an economic, social and political crisis that will threaten our free institutions.

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

People will be coming back from vacation and need to catch up with whatever's going on and they're going to be doing that right in front of the economic report on Friday, so none of that suggests that there should be any urgency to doing anything.

We've worked very hard on our relationship with the players association. The economics of the sport are strong and the current agreement has worked very well. Those three things are good reason to be optimistic we can get a new agreement without a dispute.

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.

These things take time. We need industry input to find out the economic impact these regulations would have on them.

No one is going to convince me that if a bunch of white faces had been paraded out there, that the results of this would not have been different. Certainly, the issue of economics and race played a factor in this. When it comes down to it, there is an us and them. And I don't know how to change that.

Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Recent incentive programs have established lower market pricing that makes GM increasingly vulnerable to volume declines which could occur as a result of a decline in economic conditions or simply a sustained falloff following recent industry sales spikes,

The ISM service survey joins a number of economic indicators that have shown robust economic resilience in the wake of Katrina and Rita,

It's not necessarily a negative, from the point of view of economic growth, ... Even in Washington, D.C., the government work will be made up.

I think as the year goes on there is going to be more conviction about an economic recovery. I think the market's sort of sideways with an upside bias at least for the next couple of months. I think we'll have a nice fourth quarter.

Some weaker-than-expected economic data is supporting the plight of equities (Thursday). With six rate hikes from the Fed now under our belt, we are beginning to see signs of an economic slowdown, suggesting that there could be light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.

From a symbolic perspective, this is a very important election for Japan as a victory for Koizumi and the coalition would be the most powerful signal yet that the economic model in Japan will change. Ultimately the economic cycle will prove a more significant driver of share prices.

We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Insurance, as a means of economic compensation, has always played an important role in ensuring the safe operation of an Olympic Games.

The reason we are not much worse off from an economic standpoint is because of the tax cut. That the president's tax cut was approved by the Congress has been the best-timed dose of fiscal medicine the economy has ever received,

It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that.

MA propelled the market earlier, ... But an upward move in oil above 66 took the wind out of the market in the absence of economic news.

I can't see any particular catalyst for the market going lower because there is the prospect of economic recovery, and improving expectations for economic growth in due course should feed through to improving expectations for earnings and should stop undermining apparently bad valuations.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

We will see the Fed raise rates tomorrow but beyond that, it will depend on the economic data, which is pretty mixed right now. We are not buying Treasuries.

The level of economic optimism is still quite high, especially given the continued sluggishness in the economy, rising joblessness, corporate profits warnings and equity market volatility.

At a time of economic uncertainty and weaker recruitment, persuading employers to hire more people from the benefit roll could prove an uphill task.

Our state's honey industry has suffered on several fronts in recent years, ... In addition to the destruction of honeybee colonies caused by mites and hurricanes, the flood of cheap imported honey has pushed our state's honey producers and packers to the brink of economic disaster.

In summary, the survey points to a significant pick-up in economic growth in the first quarter of 2006.

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

Very likely the Legislature is going to allow us to implement the Hathaway Scholarship Program, which is just an amazing opportunity. It will allow us to improve test scores and graduation rates. It's going to be an economic development tool as well.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

When the markets struggled for a technical bounce in the morning, that was investors sending a message that we're either heading toward an economic recession or toward a profits recession.

The Kremlin said Yeltsin was committed to the deal, however. President Yeltsin states clearly and unequivocally that he is an initiator of the unification of the two fraternal states and their peoples, a consistent and firm supporter of it, ... It is a geopolitical necessity and an economic reality.

I don't think it's racism, I think it's economic. But poverty disproportionately affects African-Americans in this country. And it happened because they were poor.

No way. To me this is not a matter of economics, it's a matter of passion. I understand over the last couple years the (stadium) process has stalled, but I'm looking to get the process moving along. I'm very positive that we'll get it accomplished.

This agreement also helps the advancement of economic and political freedom in the region. For decades, Oman and the United States have shared a desire for peace, stability and economic opportunity in the Middle East. Today we take an important new step in our partnership.

We are trying to ease life of the Palestinians and to improve the economic situation in the Palestinian side, but the main obstacle is the terror activities,

Today is very news driven. You've got GE, you've got HPQ, and the economic reports were a little better. It's the tech stocks that are leading the way. You're seeing a rotation out of the consumer stocks and into the techs.

What you have now is corporations trying to manage expectations with the intent later this year and certainly early next year of beating those expectations, ... So this market is really getting set up for a major change in perception once we begin to see some kind of economic pickup.

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.

It's encouraging to see an upgrade in the outlook and business investment will be supportive of economic growth.

Free music for life gets into an economic model that's not going to work over time.

if the financial markets were reeling and the images from the Gulf were getting worse instead of better, if energy prices were rising instead of falling. But given the economic data and financial markets, there's no reason to make a symbolic move.

What he's likely to do is to continue writing and speaking, as he has done to some extent at the Fed, and pursuing his interests in economics, which are very intense, ... He loves working with data and thinking of new ideas about the economy. I suspect we will get some of that, and in some ways, he'll be a little bit freer to speak.

It is an opportunity for people to talk about where we want to go in this state in areas like education, economic development, health care, open government.

Certainly, the loss of revenue for clubs and other groups is an issue that we're going to be concerned about. But do we do the right thing, or do we hide it under the guise of economics

Maybe my wife should be the economist.

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