Stephen Green Quotes (32 Quotes)

They're basically clinically equivalent, but one point of market share is worth millions of dollars, so if they can move the needle one way or the other with some new data, it's worth it for them to try.

All of these things are what foreign competitive institutions are good at and what Chinese institutions lack.

They have decided to move gradually. It's a wise thing to do given the unknowns in the foreign exchange market.

The government has to walk a tightrope, restraining the excessive investment while not undermining dynamic growth.

We do not view it as a change in policy. China is reforming its capital accounts - carefully and gradually relaxing controls on many of the 43 different lines of the capital account. We think this is the right way to do things.

This could give the senators more meat for their argument.

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) was looking for domestic debt at year-end 2005 to be worth 19.6 percent of GDP. That can now be revised down to about 16 percent.

I am worried that there are people working in television who know something is going to be offensive and then just go ahead and show it.

Plenty of people in this organization earn more than me. I genuinely don't care,

The recent national economic survey has apparently found another 2.4 trillion yuan (296 billion dollars) worth of output.

You've vested authority in your executive director. Two minutes ago when you adopted those bylaws, you empowered him.

potential public relations disaster of profiting from filth and blasphemy.

UBS will be able to transfer expertise, from risk management and portfolio management systems, to customer care,

China is at a point in growth where South Korea was in maybe the mid-to-late 1960s. It took Korea another couple of decades before it got to a situation where it was a much more consumer-reliant economy.

One could say that 9.9 percent is a very convenient number it's not 10 percent. Ten percent might scare people, and might create more trade friction with the U.S..

Most of all, they'd like to control the overall quality of growth, not to slow it down.

It's actually huge. It's the beginning of a wave of Chinese global investment.

We really didn't expect the central bank to raise the rate so quickly. It shows the central government is serious about curbing rising investment.

Any analysis of the demographics of emerging markets tells you that consumer finance is going to be an important part, and a rapidly growing part, of the financial-services spectrum for a long time to come,

Beijing is becoming like a massive aid donor. It will face exactly the same problems as the World Bank faces aiding Third World countries.

I don't think this out of control. I would say, given that most people are expecting a slow down in the U.S. this year, they probably wouldn't want to put the breaks down too hard.

This 2006 target is signaling they want to move back to 'neutral,' but also that they're happy to loosen policy if the economy does weaken.

That's a death threat, as far as we're concerned.

The big worry is that these energy prices hit the economy all at once and CPI rises too quickly.

This is an absolute abomination and an affront to decency. Ordinary people, seeing these disgusting images of homosexuals kissing in a kind of parody of real weddings will be disgusted.

It's important because in theory, companies are allowed to privatize, In practice, we won't see a broad privatization.

For the last three years we've been debating the whole share sell-off reform. Now people are a lot more bullish. I think there is a sense that the worst is over now.

This tour can only bring the judgment of Almighty God on the United Kingdom.

They've been slow on opening the floodgates to allow more capital out of the country because even though now there are clear reasons for bringing capital into China, some day people will want to get out of the yuan - whether it's for safety or a higher return.

Can the government introduce price relaxations gradually enough so as to keep CPI at two-three percent a year,

They seem to think he's a Mexican. Both he and his parents were born in the San Joaquin Valley.

It's all good. A bigger economy means all the dangerous ratios, such as investment as a percentage of G.D.P., all fall. And they are usually cited as showing that the Chinese economy is in danger or headed for a fall.