“It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.” TryingShowsRealityGovernmentActionEconomyFateEconomicExampleInterventionFashionableRecessionsRailGovernment InterventionGreat Recession Author:Mark Zandi
“Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.” FeelsImportantShowsHomeEconomyCookingAffectionDinnerFeel GoodGoing OutGood Food Author:Ina Garten
“China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.” PeopleWorldArtI CanShowsCultureActorsNationsGrowsEconomyCuriosityChinaAround The WorldAppetiteColourfulArt And Culture Author:Ai Weiwei
“What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.” FactsShowsEconomyImportanceDamagePullingImportsSterling Author:Adam Cole
“Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in which the level of unemployment was high. He believed that this was due to a particular example of market failure, developed in his concept of effective demand.” StatesShowsLevelsEconomyClearExampleParticularDemandConceptsDuesSettlingLabourUnemploymentEquilibriumMarket EconomyKeynesMarket Failure Author:Paul Ormerod
“Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation." "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.” YearsFirstsLongTwoRealShowsThreeGrowthEconomyMonthsSixImpactRateInvestingFinancialSignificantNineRangeTwo YearsInflationVariablesNine MonthsFinancial MarketsSignificant ChangeDeflation Author:Milton Friedman
“If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being. All civilizations have up to now been based on private property. Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art, and literature. There is no experience to show that any other social system could provide mankind with any of the achievements of civilization.” IfsWellsMeanArtShowsWisdomWould BeLiteraturePoliticsNationsSocialPrinciplesTeachEconomyMankindMaterialsCivilizationProveAchievementPropertyCommittedProductionsWell BeingLiberalismOwnershipRisenPrivate PropertySocial Systems Author:Ludwig von Mises
“Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.” MenMeanPersonsShowsWisdomHandsWantedSpiritPoliticsBornWealthCitiesEconomyDangerousBuildingOfficeAmbitionHighestLowsAccountsPropertyEntertainmentRichesFallenLiberalismRomeDaringDistributionInclinationCommonwealthImpetusDistribution Of WealthSumptuous Book:Greek and Roman Lives Source: Greek and Roman Lives
“If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsShowsProblemSidesLeaderEconomyConcernHarderResponsibleTerroristBeing Responsible Author:George Soros
“I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.” TryingLooksMeanImportantShowsAbilityEconomyProductsInvolvedHappeningsDetailsInterfere Author:Rupert Murdoch
“You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied.” MenMayFactsShowsCausesEconomyEffectsIndustryMathematicsPerceiveVagueCause And Effect Book:Letters & Journal of W. Stanley Jevons, Ed Source: Letters & Journal of W. Stanley Jevons, Ed
“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.” ShowsOrderGrowthNatureCommunityEconomyEnvironmentHealthySmartBuiltGreenShow MeConservationInfrastructureSmart Growth Author:Will Rogers
“The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.” MindMayShowsHandsEasyLordEconomyExampleThousandProveHighestMereIntellectInstanceSavingNeglectAcquisitionPractiseLord Bacon Author:Samuel Johnson
“If we decide, we can change the pitiable condition of Indian economy. We have to take up the responsibility and show commitment.” IfsShowsResponsibilityEconomyConditionsCommitmentIndiaIndianGovernance Author:Narendra Modi
“Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate to make sweeping pronouncements about the economy in general, businesses in particular, and the many issues revolving around what is called 'income distribution'.” LittlesShowsInterestEconomyIssuesFieldsParticularEconomicsFundamentalsIncomeDistributionSweepingRevolvingIncome Distribution Author:Thomas Sowell
“When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.” ShowsEconomyEconomicPolicySpeechClintonFinancialComplexityRestrictionEconomic PolicyCluelessFinancial System Author:Carly Fiorina
“A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.” WayShowsGuyNaturalHalfEconomyThrowingChefGarbagePeelingTurnips Author:Daniel Boulud
“God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.” GivingTwoMomentsShowsTogetherTimeEconomyWiseOughtManagementOur TimeProvidence Author:Francois Fenelon
“The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.” MayShowsSimpleEconomyTheoryStandardsConsequenceGainsCreditGravesInstanceConformity Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“If artists want to have people come to their shows and buy their merchandise, they really have to make a commitment to those fans and bring the best music, shows and interaction that they can. This is something that won't change with technology or economy.” PeopleIfsWantShowsArtistTechnologyEconomyFansCommitmentInteractionMerchandise Author:Steve Mahoney
“If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.” IfsShowsForceEconomyStupidRelationUnityProductionsYou Re Stupid Author:Christopher Hitchens