- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic Activity Quotes
Voices on trade, jobs, and what drives the economy.
This collection gathers quotes on economic activity from policymakers and commentators discussing trade, jobs, and financial recovery. One quote frames the goal simply as wanting "the most economic activity at the lowest price possible," calling it good for everybody regardless of politics. For related themes, see our Big quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.
- Financial System
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.
- Big Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.
- Equitable
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot eliminate poverty without enabling developing countries to engage more people in economic activity that use natural resources, and we cannot resolve runaway climate change without creating wealth in a more equitable and less carbon intensive way.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The road to economic well-being is to reward productive economic activity and to provide a moderate and predictable growth of money to finance real economic growth without reigniting the fires of inflation.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times. Capital was mobile; labor, less so. Economic activity (production, research, design, etc.) moved to any accessible country or region that had relatively inexpensive labor and human capital.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using static scoring, tax cuts are broadly assumed to 'cost' a raw amount of reduced revenue. With dynamic scoring, the new revenue likely to flow from increased economic activity produced by a tax cut is considered, improving the accuracy of the projection.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
By design, Bitcoin is a scarce resource with a predictable supply of new issuance. And it is this scarcity and predictable supply that make it so attractive as an underlying asset to bind to economic activity and trade.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020