Stock investors have concluded that the economy was in good shape before Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita, and that it has come through the storms in reasonably good shape, with the exception of oil.

Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key – and putting it there is the...

If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE

No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over...

Even with the Fed raising rates four times up to that point, the statistic revealed no significant pullback. The economy remains stubbornly resistant.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

The emergence of the global economy and a trend of operational budget reductions has been putting pressure on facility managers to identify areas that could be modified in order to obtain greater optimization and efficiency...

Germany is a split economy. Wage moderation made German companies internationally competitive in the first place. If wages only rise moderately, people may feel optimistic, but they simply don’t have that much to spend.

A core part of the global market is what might be called the ‘Nike Economy’ – footloose companies that play countries against one another while seeking subcontractors with the lowest wages and cheapest conditions.

The economy contracted in April and probably contracted in May; June is when we should be getting a bounce. If we’re to believe all the stars are aligned for a perfect eclipse of the recession...

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes

It is very important to concentrate on hitting the U.S. economy through all means possible

These people worked hard. They didn’t get big raises, if they got raises at all. Now, the economy is better … It’s time to reward our employees and at least keep their salaries at the...

Transportation Workers Union (TWU) officials are not only holding New York City and its economy hostage to their self-serving demands, but they are potentially jeopardizing the jobs of New York City’s 30,000 mass transit workers.

The economy will expand by 3 percent from here on out, and we will have growth in jobs of about 100,000 to 200,000 per month, and that’s it. Get used to it.

We still have got some serious fundamental problems in the global economy and it’s going to be difficult for the market to move ahead consistently without solving them.

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.

Banking doesn’t involve fraud, banking IS fraud.(from video by Paul Grignon done for United Financial Consumers (2002) ) (Added to goodreads by Mike Tobin)

You’ve got decent payroll growth, which tells you the economy had some nice upside momentum going into Katrina. But it doesn’t tell what the economy has done after Katrina and that’s really the problem for...

Can this Nigeria, without external support, bake her own bread, sew her own garments, drill her own oil, produce her own cars, fly her own planes, design her own cities and, fight her own wars?...

The global economy is in good shape. The environment is conducive to taking risks for now, so we’ll remain overweight in stocks and underweight in bonds.

It’s important because we want to make sure people know how to drive the cars to increase their fuel economy, … And it’s important for my group, too, because they really feel like rock stars.

As the war progresses, and as population increases to an even more intolerable level stretching resources to impossible lengths, the strong will begin fighting for their very survival. That’s what we’re seeing right now. Society...

New Rule: Republicans must stop pitting the American people against the government. Last week, we heard a speech from Republican leader Bobby Jindal–and he began it with the story that every immigrant tells about going...

An economy that was clearly bad has gone to worse after those (Sept. 11) tragedies took place,

It’s clear that, even though the economy is growing fairly rapidly … it’s not generating any price pressures. This may permit interest rates to edge lower.

The idea is that interest rates will affect the old-economy companies more, because they are more interest rate sensitive. You will probably have less of an effect on technology stocks, and there is a lot...

In prior years, saddled with heavy incentives and a sagging economy, industry executives pushed profitability out as far as they could. Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than...

I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that’s going to take me a year.

With strong investment growth and an expected improvement in exports, our forecast for the economy overall is that annual GDP growth will pick up modestly during 2006 to about 3.25 pct.

skill and knowledge economy.

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy....

His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and who had practiced his own precepts of economy for several years...

Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book...

As we look forward, and try to get a pulse on the economy, there’s going to be a significant amount of data pollution that’s going to make it very difficult for us.

China’s economy is expected to continue its extended cycle of strong growth, thanks to the pivotal role it plays in the global supply chain. China’s solid manufacturing base is essential to neighboring Asian economies, which...

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

Even when the economy is fully recovered and companies are back in expansion mode, we may not see a revival in hiring of the rank-and-file worker. Cost containment oriented companies, in an effort to become...

Those who had the remaining jobs would have to buy the cheapest stuff possible with their drastically reduced wages, and in order for the manufacturers to keep that stuff cheap, it would have to be...

The market correctly saw that the economy was going to soften in the fourth quarter,

Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. – Ulrich Beck

Ultimately the buck stops with the president. If people are upset about the economy and want to blame someone, that someone is probably going to be the president,

The only way to sustain this world economy is by changing its definition.

If the economy recovers quickly, the 10-year rate could be 5.2 percent even earlier than what they’re projecting, and it could be 6 percent in the coming years.

We have saturated Europe with oil. And as any economics handbook will tell you, excessive supply makes prices fall. But we do not have the means to decrease supply: all our (oil) exports are directed...

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we’re leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.