Is it really necessary to reward the CEO with several million dollars? Why isn’t it logical or common sense to pay the minimum-wage employee another quarter, give a quarterly fifty-dollar bonus, or even provide a...

China’s success lies on being a communist community within and a capitalist company outside.

In some industries, there’s no improvement and the economy is not going to help them.

An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

A seller-sovereign economy includes sellers who are monopolistic or oligopolistic without being confronted by the ultimate consumers who are organized in monopsonistic or ologopsonistic modes. It is an economy where enormous skill, artifice, and resources...

The trade surplus figures showed strong exports and domestic demand. This shows the economy is robust enough to withstand a rate increase later this year, supporting the yen.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

At some point the Fed has to decide how strong do we want this economy.

The housing market only has a smaller impact to any slowdown in the economy.

If you’re bullish on the global economy over the next couple of years, you have to think the CAD is going to be a major beneficiary.

Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them...

The economy is paralyzed. We can’t buy groceries because no one will give us credit. Taxi drivers, won’t give us a ride, because we don’t have money.

I believe Obama is a lot of fun when he’s not trying to keep our economy together.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

It’s going to be the president’s assessment of where the economy is, why his plan is the best plan to help the economy recover,

The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of...

We think 3.5 percent is a good point for the Fed to take a break to measure the economy and the impact of its rate hikes. If the economy does appear to be picking up,...

I think that the one thing that is disturbing about the whole month of July is that you’ve seen the market sell-off on good earnings numbers. And it seems to remind me a little bit...

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk – it...

Economics and security are inextricably linked. You only have to look at what happened in a place like Bali, when you had the terrorist attack there, you can see that the economy and terrorism are...

I would sign up for the view that industrial, ‘old economy’ stocks could well be the next to move higher. But I don’t see a definitive move until we see some of the economic data...

The global economy has become a blast furnace that seeks to eliminate many of the gains that steelworkers have won over the years.

It looks like the economy is still quite healthy and the Fed is probably following the appropriate course. The economy doesn’t need low interest rates.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

This is adding to the evidence that the economy is going to pick up and I think that we’re going to keep seeing a better job picture.

The immediate driver is that investment activity is picking up. The global economy remains very robust, and after a long and dreadful period, there are hopes that German consumption will strengthen.

The U.S. economy is still doing very well, and numbers out this week should be fairly solid. The dollar is going to be well supported.

We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverseknowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanentconstruction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, socialexposure).

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

With the higher energy prices, the economy overall has stayed stronger than we would have thought.

The ‘new economy’ was a new beast to some extent, and the Fed was too lenient in terms of letting consumer exuberance get ahead of itself. They should have been moderating growth in 1997 and...

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there...

The economics of Washington’s strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

This means that the intrinsic power of the economy mainly market forces instead of factors outside the economy was having a greater influence, which was a good thing.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain – try to remove it and you kill the patient.

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state’s economy,

Political opposition to the Bank of Japan ending its policy has clearly been removed. With the government’s support, the central bank is now beset with the overall responsibility to ensure the economy keeps expanding after...

The data should give investors a positive outlook for the U.S. economy. That’s dollar supportive for sure.

Even though the political risk profile has shifted toward an adverse trajectory, the economy should remain on its robust pace in the near future. The Bank of Israel has enough ammunition, thanks to an undervalued...

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it

The world has a very serious problem, my friend’ Shiva went on. ‘Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich — like me — live in post-scarcity society, while a billion...

It’s important to stress that we do have some very good things going on in this economy, which Greenspan reiterated yesterday. What we should be thinking about is that this is a move that’s designed...

job creation,” in Kentucky, and in other backward states, we have lavished public money on corporations that come in and stay only so long as they can exploit people here more cheaply than elsewhere. The...

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there’s one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or...

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that ‘fine-tuning’ the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

They’re (investors) looking for the Fed to be absolutely aggressive and see the economy as slow as can be and to be measured in terms of understanding how important the consumer is at this point....

Forget the interpretations of recession. We’re still talking about a relatively stretched economy. There is no justification for the Reserve Bank to abandon the firm interest- rate outlook.