“The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.” PoliticalEconomyEconomicWeakElectionCongressIncomeInequalityPresidentialThemeDominantPresidential ElectionIncome InequalityEconomic InequalityGridlock Author:Steven Rattner
“England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to the degree that tax-consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work. The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle – ANY society.” GivingIdeasGovernmentPurposeStrongSocialPrinciplesEconomicProductsTaxesDegreesStandardsLaborWeakEnglandConsumersCommunistSocialistTaxpayersIndustriousBasic PrinciplesCannibalismFrugal Author:Dan Smoot
“We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.” WorldYearsEconomyEconomicProductsWeakResponseBillionsStrongestEnginesImports Author:Jennifer Granholm
“Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.” CountryGovernmentAmericaCultureForceSocialNaturalStruggleEnvironmentGroupsEconomicWeakWideUnifiedNatural EnvironmentSocial GroupsWeak Government Author:Johan Huizinga