- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economy Quotes
What an economy is built to serve.
This economy quotes collection is grounded in a straightforward point: keeping pace as a modern, developed economy requires laying real groundwork to seize opportunity. See Growth quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are generally not a problem for the economy as a whole and do not constitute deflation.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.
- Consumption
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- Nov 07, 2020
The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
- Employment
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
- Middle Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
- Private
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- Nov 07, 2020
2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy would be catastrophic.
- Deflation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Near-zero policy rates that may be considerably expansionary in an economy with high inflation could be contractionary when inflation is too close to zero, or worse, deflation has set in.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020