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...

A two-month gain in consumer prices shows that household finances are finally benefiting from the recovery in the economy and corporate earnings.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the...

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.

You’re basically seeing the economy still showing a lot of strength, and that will probably get people a little nervous, in terms of what the Fed may have to do again — another pre-emptive interest...

It was May 2009, and I didn’t like where the economy was headed. (I wished the Federal Reserve had a GPS or a map or some clue as to where they were driving the economy)....

Relatively speaking, Japan looks the least uncertain market in regard to politics and the economy.

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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes a-foot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try who will get there first. The distance is thirty miles, the fare ninety cents. That...

Today’s numbers show that consumers are not very optimistic about the economy. As a result, we will see consumer spending reduced until we see some relief on energy prices. If we don’t get some relief,...

Crying about the economy is a strategy. It won’t get you a job, but it will keep Kleenex in business.

This is a sign that we can expect the economy to pick up over the rest of the year.

As companies have finished restructuring and the economy is expected to keep growing next year, you don’t have to be pessimistic about a rise in the jobless rate in a single month.

Because we don’t live in a society anymore, Tom. We live in an economy. We’re not citizens. We’re customers. That’s what this government’s done to us.

As the national economy gets better, California will get better, and some of its problems will be less acute.

I think there’s no question that an improved economy will push Amazon’s growth rate up. The question is whether the growth can be faster than that. As long as the company keeps reporting growth that’s...

In Italy, after stagnating in 2005, the economy now shows some signs of recovery.

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I’d explain it to yea’ – but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o’clock in the morning. And there...

Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing a big market

Growing optimism about the overall health of the economy continues to bolster consumers’ short-term outlook. But consumers’ assessment of current conditions, which strongly hinges on improvements in the labor market, remains both weak and volatile.

I can’t imagine Bush would want to spoil things in the economy by picking someone that is not competent,

The economy is performing well and we will follow through on the path we set out in the last budget,

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

I think that the objective of the interest rate hikes is to keep the economy in the 3-1/2, maybe 3-3/4 range. So the Fed has been saying all along, give us 12 months from when...

Concerns the U.S. economy will slow are easing and growth seems to be going strong. That should benefit exporters, especially technology companies.

There’s so much liquidity in the economy right now that, left alone, it could become fuel for inflation, … I can see the Fed taking preventive measures to ensure inflation doesn’t become a problem.

For the first time, a whole generation had the economic & educational opportunity to turn their backs on the dead end factory jobs of their parents, who, traumatized by two world wars, had responded by...

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m...

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars...

I would have liked to hear more comments on the local economy.

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater...