“Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).” ShouldUseValuesEconomicCitizensNormalAnxietyInvestmentCertaintyOwn BusinessHarbour Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“There are change elections and there are 'more of the same' elections, and there was a lot of economic anxiety in the 1992 election and (Bill Clinton) was able to drive a change narrative. after eight years of Barack Obama, it's very difficult to understand what kind of change it is that Hillary Clinton's candidacy could represent.” YearsKindAbleDifficultChangeEconomicAnxietyElectionBillsClintonEightBarackNarrativeCandidacy Author:Steve Schmidt
“What's happened in the United States is something that has already happened in Europe and that is that Islam is become 'otherised', it has become a kind of receptacle into which fears and anxieties about the political or economic situation, about the changing racial landscape of this country are being thrown.” KindCountryStatesPoliticalUnitedSituationUnited StatesHappenedEconomicAnxietyEuropeIslamLandscapeThrown Author:Reza Aslan
“A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.” PeopleThinkingWantMadeFeltLevelsEconomicConversationAnxietyAreasMiracleRecoveryTensionRecessionsEconomic Recovery Author:Marianne Williamson
“I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding that train pretty hard.” ThinkingHardSocialNumbersIssuesEconomicAnxietyTrainClintonRidingSocial Anxiety Author:David Brooks
“It would be a mistake to overstate the similarities between the Brexit vote and Trump's win - but there are common themes, not least in the rallying cries that the winning campaigns used. They focused on a supposed economic threat posed by outsiders, as immigrants or as trade partners. This fuelling of anxieties underpinned a narrative centered on the need to "regain control," whether of borders or of economic forces.” NeedsWould BeUsedWinningForceCommonMistakeEconomicCryTrumpAnxietyVoteTradeThreatFocusedPartnersCampaignsNarrativeBordersThemeImmigrantsOutsidersSimilarityRallyingRallying Cry Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.” Life IsStruggleEconomicMaterialsComfortAnxietyProtection Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.” LeftEconomicPolicyAnxietyEnormousUncertaintyEconomic Policy Author:Bob Beauprez
“Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)” WellsKindPersonsFactsTogetherPoliticalArtistMoralCreativeEconomicAnxietyAll KindsThreatenedDestroyersCreative PersonDogmatismCreative Freedom Author:Rollo May
“The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.” HumansReasonFearExistenceAtheismEconomicDemandAnxietyCreatingDevilPressureStrategyRageOur TimeDelusionHuman Existence Author:Philip Zimbardo
“Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.” ReligionSocialEnvironmentAtheismEconomicAnxietyMechanismCopingCoping Mechanisms Author:Gregory S. Paul
“The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a genuine understanding not only of the anxieties of their employees but of all taxpayers. Those chief executives who succeed will be those who imbue in their businesses very simple, commonsense standards of decency” RunningUnderstandingSimpleBusinessEconomicSucceedAnxietyStandardsCapitalismEconomicsManagementGenuineChiefsVisibleEmployeeExecutivesManifestDecencyTaxpayersDownturnChief ExecutivesEconomic Downturn Author:Robert Peston
“My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.” MeanEconomicAnxietyVolatilityElectoral Process Author:Tim Kaine