Japan’s economy demonstrates quite a healthy picture,

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations,...

People’s feelings about the economy are tied to how they feel about the president … and the feeling is not that strong.

According to our calculation, 30 percent is the maximum increase (if the economy is) to achieve 8.0 percent inflation and GDP (gross domestic product) growth of 5.4 percent.

The economy is way too hot and is generating inflation pressure. And the Fed is going to have to address it with higher interest rates.

The economy is already slowing down without the impact of that 50 basis point hike last month, and I think what you have to look at here is the ending of the interest rate cycle....

We don’t want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have...

What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

I am still a little bit bearish. The market thinks the U.S. economy is strong. Treasuries are still not attractive because the Fed will raise rates on March 28 and maybe again in May.

When the fog lifts on this economy, I think we’ll find a lot of people refusing to ever turn off their caution lights.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

The New Economy is one where small business has the advantage. What is itabout small business that is unique? Today’s small businesses are lean, smart, complex – eternally entrepreneurial – not just small versions of...

People did not go to work. People did not shop, did not participate actively in the economy. It was significant.

Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power over most of Southern England. One of the most remarkable extantfrom King Offa’s...

This signals another promising year of continued momentum within the U.S. manufacturing economy as companies continue to recognize the benefits of investing in new machine tool technology to improve productivity.

None of this bodes well for retailers depending on strong holiday sales, nor for the entire economy, which has mostly relied on consumer spending to keep it afloat,

This is more corroboration that the economy, particularly the production side, is responding to the pick-up in demand we saw in the third quarter.

One of the things recessions do is uncover weak links. When you’re in a strong economy, a bull market, you can paper over a lot of things. When you get under some strain, these things...

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don’t, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

The underlying state of the economy is on weak footing, and we’re going to need further stimulus to keep the recovery on track.

Politicians sre the same all over.They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers.

We don’t get all the headlines up here, but it’s a good economy.

The more the battle for Guidant becomes a bidding war … the higher the probability that the true economics of the deal accrue to Guidant shareholders and not to those of the ‘winner’ bidder.

Allowing taxes to go up on all Americans would have raised taxes by $3,000 for a typical American family. And that could cost our economy well over a million jobs.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to...

The Bank of Korea has been doing well guarding against inflationary pressures. The Korean economy is having a good recovery and the shift of focus is really to guard against overheating.

Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It’s mind-boggling.

Capitalism , as Marx defined it, is a system in which productive wealth is privately owned. Communism (which Marx proposed as an alternative) is one in which productive wealth is owned by the community, or...

The big picture is that the economy is accelerating and we live in a consumer-driven economy. It seems pretty obvious what the best way is to play this.

What’s great to me is that we’re building jobs, and we’re really building northern Michigan’s brand. We’re helping the economy here.

Since Nigeria has refused to fully embrace the present reality as it is, that is; the importance of science and technology, the redundancy of religion, the need for pragmatic international relations, economic reforms, support of...

Genua had once controlled the rivermouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn’t be called piracybecause it was done by the city government, and therefore sound economicsand perfectly all right

I want this to be heard near and far we will have a market economy. But the state will promote development and fight inequality.

I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain’s economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s.

Claiming “the budget can’t allow it” reminds me of when you walk into a restaurant at a civilized hour like ten o’clock and they say “the kitchen is closed.” For years I would hear this,...

If our economy depends on options we have a huge problem on our hands. Please don’t insult my intelligence that badly.

give a boost to the economy.

The payroll numbers were extraordinarily supportive for the economy. But counter to that, the report brings back the Fed and inflationary prospects, and that’s why you see just a modest up day.

In a down economy, our survey has found executives always pushing profitability a few years out, and this year is no different. But what the executives are telling us this year is that they have...

Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such.

The reality is that the economy is in great shape. It’s created lots of good jobs?not bad jobs. We haven’t created a whole bunch of hamburger flipping jobs.

Economics, finance, foreign affairs, the environment – you name it, they’re there.

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been less secure in the last 18 months or so than it had previously been. So...

In art economy is always beauty.

The upper end of the economy has done very well and the stock market is at a 3-1/2 year high. This bodes well for the high-end merchants, … Discounters would have had a hard time...

I get to watch traffic flows in every sector of every economy in the world on a real time basis.

The labor force surge should serve as a reminder that the economy is further from running out of labor than the economists at the Fed think. The economy remains strong and the labor market continues...

We now see more and more of these Old Economy-New Economy hybrids cutting their online staffs, … Companies that were hoping, if not expecting to eventually shift the lion’s share of their business to the...