“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