“Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.” PeopleYoungLostRiskGenerationsEconomicCrisisWestCatastropheEbolaWest Africa Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.” IfsWarProblemLostCausesReligiousEconomicRacismPopulationSolveInequalitySexismIntoleranceGrossReligious IntoleranceEconomic InequalityOverpopulationPopulation ControlLost CausePopulation Problem Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.” ThinkingYearsStoriesSeemsAgeLostNationsSimpleEconomicApproachManagementSevenFatsContactWelfareEgyptPrudentHomely Author:Benjamin Graham
“Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.” SelfLostSocialCausesEconomicConflictAnalysisServingSelf Serving Author:Michel Chossudovsky
“The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.” ThinkingMenWorldMadeWisdomUniversePoliticsIndividualLostSocialNaturalAnimalResponsibilityEconomyEconomicCreaturesConceptsFilledWesternArisePsychologicalLiberalismBagsCollectivesSubstitutesIsolatedSocial ResponsibilityComponentsFragmentsTotalitarianismTotalityWestern WorldPhysiologicalLibido Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.” JobsLostEconomicMy FamilyCrisisAffectedBad TimesEconomic Crisis Author:Joey Badass
“President Bush went out touting his economic record in Ohio last week. Now this is a state that lost 225,000 jobs since Bush took office. You know, if Bush wants to tout his record, he should do it somewhere where the Bush economy has actually created jobs, like India, or Thailand, or China.” IfsKnowsWantShouldStatesJobsLastsLostPresidentEconomyRecordsWeekEconomicOfficeIndiaChinaPresident BushOhioThailand Author:Jay Leno
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“Will we follow the course of societies past that have lost their way and crumbled under the devastating forces of economic upheaval, war and other crises? Or we pull together as families and communities to create a brighter future?” WayWarTogetherPastCoursesLostForceCommunityEconomicCrisisBrighterUpheavalBrighter Future Author:Oliver DeMille
“We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of a socialist market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people.” PeopleImportantWarHardLostStrongGrowthEconomyPathEconomicIndependenceSocialismOur SocietySocialistSolidarityProsperousEconomic GrowthMarket EconomyAffluentReunification Author:Nguyen Minh Triet
“The social and economic impact of the earthquake is still very present and is contributing to mental health problems, the mother who lost her husband, or children who lost their parents, and who now are responsible for the whole family, taking children to school and providing food. This transition is still causing stress and depression.” ChildrenStillsWholeProblemSchoolMotherLostSocialParentEconomicHealthHusbandStressResponsibleImpactMental HealthTransitionProvidingEarthquakesContributingWhole FamilyHealth Problems Author:Reggie Fils-Aime
“Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his own happiness in any way that he chooses. No one has the authority to grant rights to anyone else, because human beings already possess all natural rights at birth. These rights include both personal and economic freedoms, and the only way they can be lost is if someone takes them away by force. The only right that an individual does not naturally possess is the right to violate someone else's liberty.” IfsWayHumansDoeBodyIndividualLostForceNaturalHuman BeingsLibertyRightsEconomicBirthEqualAuthorityAbsolutesPropertyPursueGrantsSovereigntyEconomic FreedomNatural Rights Author:Robert Ringer
“At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.” GamesLostSidesHalfEconomicActivityEconomicsTradeAssumingInternationalEmploymentZeroApartmentBoth SidesFallacyTransactionsInternational TradeZero Sum Game Author:Thomas Sowell
“What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.” LongShowsAmericaCoursesNextLostTermLosesEconomicSucceedDirectorsPicksChinaPostsPresidentialEmpiresAnxiousLong AgoOlympicsDominantEditorialsEconomic PowerBritsImf Author:Mark Steyn
“When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in more than 200,000 jobs, ... She has not. We have lost jobs to outsourcing and globalization and to sending our jobs and industries to foreign countries.” CountryStatesJobsLostGrowthEconomicNew YorkIndustryOfficeClintonRanGlobalizationEconomic GrowthForeign CountriesOutsourcingNew York State Author:David Brenner
“A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.” KnowsFeelsHas BeensEndsFeelingsCultureLostCommunityEconomicAddDestroyedNativeMinoritiesInsignificantFeeling Lost Author:Sherman Alexie
“One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, he attacked the Church to demonstrate to old Party members that he hadn't lost it.” PoliticalLostChurchPartyEconomicPeriodsMembersUnionsViolentSovietSoviet Union Author:George Pattison