“To recover from the current economic downturn, it has been estimated that we need to create on the order of 17 million to 20 million new jobs in the coming decade...And it's very hard to imagine where those jobs are going to come from unless we seriously get busy reinventing manufacturing.” NeedsHas BeensHardJobsOrderMillionsImagineEconomicBusyCurrentsDecadesManufacturingNew JobReinventingDownturnEconomic Downturn Author:Susan Hockfield
“For nearly three decades there has been, by and large, peace and tranquility on the India-China border. Not a single bullet has been fired for over a quarter-century. Both countries are showing great maturity and a commitment to economic cooperation.” Has BeensCountryThreeEconomicCenturyCommitmentIndiaChinaDecadesBordersMaturityCooperationQuartersBulletsTranquilityPeace And TranquilityEconomic Cooperation Author:Narendra Modi
“We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.” NeedsFirstsCountryGoalGrowthEconomicAchieveProductsFirst TimeAbsolutesDecadesPrioritiesOur CountryOccasionsAddressesGrossEconomic GrowthAnnualsGross Domestic Product Author:Vladimir Putin
“These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the same stale Washington ideas. Five decades and trillions of dollars after President Johnson waged his War on Poverty, the results of this big-government approach are in.” IdeasWarBigsGovernmentOpportunitySocialCausesPresidentResultsPovertyFiveEconomicApproachDollarsComplexesEducationalDecadesInequalityContinuingJohnsonStaleBig GovernmentWar On PovertyPresident Johnson Author:Marco Rubio
“America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station, and to do it within a decade.” DreamAmericaStarsSpaceEconomicModernGreatnessGainsDecadesPeacefulTonightStationsOur DreamsModern LifeNasa Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax rates in the nation. If you look at the economic metrics over the last decade for both groups, the zero-income-tax-rate states outperform the highest-income-tax-rate states by a fairly sizable amount.” IfsLooksStatesLastsNationsGroupsEconomicAmountTaxesHighestRateDecadesNineIncomeCompareZeroIncome TaxMetrics Author:Arthur Laffer
“For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public knows of these things only in fragments, but not as a coherent and practical agenda indeed the only practical course available. That is our fault and we should start now to put a positive agenda before the public that includes the human and economic advantages of better technology, integrated planning, coherent purposes, and foresight.” KnowsShouldHumansHas BeensIdeasPurposeThreeCoursesTechnologyEconomicAdvantageFaultsEnvironmentalAvailableDecadesPlanningPracticalsDevelopingAgendasSustainabilityTechnologicalFragmentsIntegratedForesight Author:David W. Orr
“Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.” PeopleThinkingMeanDifferentWould BeTodayPoliticalCertainBlackNumbersClassEconomicMiddleConnectionsDecadesInevitableLiberationMiddle ClassBlack PeopleQuestsEmancipationBourgeoisie Author:Angela Davis
“For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.” TodayEnergyEconomicDecadesRenewable Energy Author:Barack Obama
“Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place.” Has BeensGovernmentGreaterEconomicManagementDecadesCyclesSwingsFrameworkCounterpartsContinental Author:Tony Blair
“The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.” Has BeensPastForceNumbersHalfTechnologyEconomyDoubtEconomicCenturyReturnPeriodsRootsTransformationInnovationRaisesTrainDecadesIntenseTendenciesDramaticNo DoubtProductiveYieldEfficiencyOver The PastNew TechnologyCumulative Author:Alan Greenspan
“Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.” Has BeensIdeasWarHardStatesRealizingLibertyEconomicMiddlePoliceEastDecadesNo IdeaMiddle EastAsiaPolice StateEast AsiaGestapo Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and financial crisis in decades - possibly since the Great Depression - and the one group that spends most of its waking hours analyzing the economy basically missed it.” HoursEconomyGroupsEconomicCrisisFinancialDecadesWakingEconomistSpectacularIntriguingGreat DepressionAnalyzingFinancial CrisisEconomic CrisisSubplots Author:Robert J. Samuelson
“Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments as the decades went by. They produced the wealth and rising income that resulted in the emergence of a phenomenon completely new to human history: a self-supporting and educated middle class that grew more and more as they lower classes bettered their economic well-being.” HumansWellsSelfWealthClassPovertyEconomicMiddleCenturyGrewCreatingCapitalismWorkersDecadesIncomeEducatedEmploymentWell BeingRisingMiddle ClassPhenomenonPerpetualHuman HistoryDoom19th CenturyEmergenceLower Class Author:Richard Ebeling
“For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the environmental front. After all, the data is so compelling! I thought that if people just understood the severity of today's environmental threats and knew about available solutions, those solutions would happen. Not so.” PeopleIfsEnoughHappensTodayCommonCasesStudyEconomicFrontsSolutionsUnderstoodThreatEnvironmentalAvailableDecadesCommon SenseDataCompellingSeverityScientific TruthCase Studies Author:Annie Leonard