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“I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.”

World Mean Country Done Bigs Given Chance Forget Effort Poverty Lows Debt Income Indebted Good Chance Low Income

Author:Rodrigo Rato

“The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.”

People World Country States Energy Given Nations Lines United United States Economy Wise Industry Cost Lows Bottom Oil Bottom Line Manufacturing Greatest Gifts World Economy Oil Industry

Author:Ray L. Hunt

“During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.”

Two Country Past Levels Majors Lows Decades Fallen Inflation Low Level

Author:Toshihiko Fukui

“I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing in this country and create decent paying jobs here.”

Thinking Needs Country Jobs America Lows Investing Corporate Decent Corporate America

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.”

May Country Whole Seems Together Easy Fire Sky Safe Summer Lows Destruction Environmental Woods Destroyed Our Country Smoke Landscape Doomed Boundless

Book:The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails

Source: The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails

“It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.”

Kind Country Opportunity Economic Cost Lows Fortune All Kinds Discussion Good Fortune Affluent Opportunity Cost

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Hyperinflation is not going to happen in this country, will never happen... The Fed putting so much money into the system is not going to create the risk of hyperinflation in the future. We have a strong independent Federal Reserve with a very strong mandate from the Congress, and they will do what's necessary to keep inflation low and stable over time.”

Country Happens Strong Risk Lows Independent Congress Feds Very Strong Stable Reserves Inflation Mandates Federal Reserve Strong Man Strong Independent Hyperinflation

Author:Timothy Geithner

“If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!”

Ifs Should Country Running Race Successful Rich Lows Riches Wages

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions

“When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.”

Source: The Culture of the New Capitalism