“The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they're going to want their apartments and homes. And that's when you'll start to see a recovery in home prices.” PeopleWantRealStoriesHomeJobsEconomyCarRecoveryBuyingHouseholdApartmentHousingReal StoryBuying A Car Author:Jamie Dimon
“We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind of example we could throw out there. The world we see online is very spiteful, we all know about people who have had bad stories thrown at them. If we were more generous I might be more happy about the reputation economy.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWantKindDoneStoriesMightEconomyExampleReputationGenerousThrownOnlineOld WorldSpiteful Author:Andrew Keen
“When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.” WritingLooksKindCountrySometimesStatesStoriesJobsTermPoorUnitedRaceHalfUnited StatesEconomyRichLowsCapitalismLaborPressesWorkersBottomGermanyScareWagesSelectionDrainingMigrateOverqualified Book:The Culture of the New Capitalism Source: The Culture of the New Capitalism
“Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.” KindStoriesEconomyGayCinemaGay Life Author:Ira Sachs
“My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.” IfsKnowsWorldShouldWritingMeanCharacterHelpingStoriesBodyPoliticalDealsBreakEconomyElementsResearchFunctionBreaking DownStarvingMain Characters Author:Leigh Bardugo
“Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.” WritingStoriesEconomyCriminalsListsRemarkableFrighteningWarfareHarshVengeanceObjectivityStarksUnderstatement Author:Anthony Boucher