“I`d say is stimulus infrastructure spending is not instant jobs. I think the real reason the president [Donald Trump] wants to do this is because we have a crumbling infrastructure problem and you need a good modern infrastructure for economic growth to occur.” ThinkingWantNeedsRealReasonProblemJobsGrowthPresidentEconomicModernTrumpSpendingInstantInfrastructureEconomic GrowthStimulusCrumblingCrumbling Infrastructure Author:Paul Ryan
“Not just the jobs building the infrastructure, but you need to have a good highway system. You need to have a good bridge system, a good pipeline system, a good canal and waterway system for economic growth to occur, for a modern economy to succeed.” NeedsJobsGrowthEconomyEconomicModernBuildingSucceedBridgesHighwaysInfrastructureEconomic GrowthCanalsPipeline Author:Paul Ryan
“We think that`s necessary just as a foundation for economic growth. It`s not the jobs in and of themselves, which you do make by building bridges and things like this, but it`s the economic growth that comes from having a modern infrastructure that is in dire need of repair.” ThinkingNeedsJobsGrowthEconomicModernBuildingFoundationBridgesInfrastructureEconomic GrowthBuilding Bridges Author:Paul Ryan
“Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from being at ease and it really stifles the social and economic growth of a family. Women are hit hard across the board, but particularly in homes where the mother is the head of the household and the only wage-earner. It hurts her, and it hurts her children.” ChildrenTwoHardHomeCareMotherSocialParentGrowthHurtEconomicEaseBoardsHouseholdIt HurtsEconomic GrowthChild Care Author:Nina Turner
“Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.” WayHelpingFacesGrowthChallengesEconomicMajorsLegacyStabilityEconomic GrowthEraseMarginalizationChallenges We Face Author:Shakira
“Let's take Southeast Asia. The last 20, 30 years has been what's called the "Asian Miracle" - fast economic growth, industrial society. It's happening all over, with one exception, which one? The Philippines is the one that can't grow, which the US has been running for 100 years. Is there a correlation? Have you read about it? It comes to mind, at least.” YearsMindHas BeensRunningLastsGrowsGrowthEconomicHappeningsMiracleExceptionAsiaAsianEconomic GrowthPhilippinesCorrelationSoutheast Asia Author:Noam Chomsky
“The impact of QE on generating more lending by Wall Street to Main Street and in generating more employment and increasing overall investment in the economy is quite modest. QE probably limited the initial collapse of the economy in 2008, and likely had a very small positive impact on economic growth, but its broader impact on jobs and growth in the economy seems not very big.” BigsSeemsJobsGrowthEconomyEconomicStreetsWallImpactInvestmentEmploymentCollapseModestInitialsEconomic GrowthLendingPositive ImpactMain Street Author:Gerald Epstein
“Initially, QE contributed to a pretty significant increase in inequality. It raised asset prices, which are owned primarily by the wealthy, while having relatively small if any positive impacts on bank lending, employment, wages or economic growth, so ordinary people haven't had much help. By the third round of QE in 2012-2014, the effects had likely muted quite a bit. There were probably not big impacts on asset prices from QE and the positive effects on employment growth might have strengthened somewhat.” PeopleIfsHelpingBigsMightBitsGrowthEconomicEffectsHavensOrdinaryThirdsIncreaseImpactRaisedRoundsSignificantEmploymentInequalityWealthyAssetsWagesOrdinary PeopleEconomic GrowthLendingPositive ImpactHaving StrengthBig Impact Author:Gerald Epstein
“The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of today. Economic growth, as we have known it in a cheap energy industrial paradigm, will cease.” WayTodayEnergyGrowthKnownEconomyEconomicCenturyCeaseLocalsAgriculture21st CenturyEconomic GrowthParadigm Author:James Howard Kunstler
“When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of bucks and hope they spend 'em in our city. We're talking about creating jobs, creating new companies and then we move from there to talk about cooperatives which can become some of those jobs, some of the solidarity economy where we can begin to band together people so they'll understand that a job is not a single individual affair but a collective affair.” PeopleTogetherJobsMovingIndividualGrowthCitiesCompanyTalkingEconomyEconomicBandCreatingAffairBunchEmsCollectivesSolidarityEconomic GrowthBucksNot TalkingCooperativesCreating JobsNew Company Author:Chokwe Lumumba
“The result of this anti-classical revolution you had just before World War I was that today, almost all the economic growth in the last decade has gone to the One Percent. It's gone to Wall Street, to real estate.” WorldWarRealTodayGrowthEconomicRevolutionWallWar Of The WorldsWorld War IEconomic Growth Author:Michael Hudson
“Today's national income statistics make it appear that Goldman Sachs is productive. As if Donald Trump plays a productive role. The aim is to make it appear that people who take money from the rest of the economy without working are productive, despite not really providing any service that actually contributes to GDP and economic growth.” PeopleGrowthEconomyEconomicAimProductiveEconomic Growth Author:Michael Hudson
“There is too much economic growth not happening that needs to be jump-started. There are too many jobs to be created, and there's too much wealth waiting to be created. If that got going, there'd be no stopping Trump; I don't care what the Democrats think they've got on any of this collusion with the Russians 'cause there's nothing there.” ThinkingCareWaitingGrowthWealthEconomicDemocratEconomic Growth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of view, it affects competitiveness and creates jobs. Or from a social justice point of view, you can take someone in the bottom tier of income and let him compete to be a doctor or lawyer. The education system is the only reason the dream of equal opportunity has a chance of being delivered - and we're not running a good education system.” PeopleReasonDreamRunningOpportunityGrowthJusticeChanceEconomyMagicEconomicEqualSocial JusticeBottomPoint Of ViewLawyerEducateEconomic GrowthEducation SystemEqual OpportunityCompetitivenessGood Education Author:Bill Gates
“Health care is in as bad a shape as it has ever been after eight years of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party running it and running the US economy. It's an absolute disaster. Other areas of the economy are a disaster. Economic growth? There isn't any. It's 1% per quarter, a 4% growth rate per year if we're lucky. There is no expansion. There is no productivity increase.” CareRunningGrowthPartyEconomyEconomicLuckyDemocratRateProductivityDisasterBarackHealth CareEconomic Growth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.” IfsShouldWarBlackGrowthLosesPovertyEconomicHonestVoteDemocratDiscussionWelfareEconomic GrowthPrivate SectorWar On Poverty Author:Alveda King
“Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creativity, so if we want to increase it, we have to tap into the creativity of everyone. That's what makes me optimistic. For the first time in human history, the basic logic of our economy dictates that further economic development requires the further development and use of human creative capabilities. The great challenge of our time is to find ways to tap into every human's creativity.” GrowthChallengesCreativityEconomyCreativeEconomicFirst TimeLogicDrivenOptimisticCapabilityEconomic GrowthEconomic Development Author:Richard Florida
“I would like to have a Europe that has a strong foreign and defense policy, ensures economic growth and is active in addressing the issues of the refugee crisis. But perhaps not one that imposes new regulations on allergens that requires food menus to be changed everywhere. When that happens, it creates the feeling that the wrong priorities are being set.” FeelingsStrongGrowthEconomicPolicyChangedCrisisPrioritiesRefugeeEconomic Growth Author:Sebastian Kurz
“We are under the stifling regulation and taxes of a predominantly left-wing type of thinking and philosophy. The eight years of Barack Obama have shrouded this country in punitive regulations. We haven't had economic growth higher than one and a half percent for the last eight or nine years, and that was done on purpose. There have been robust times in the past, and there are a lot of people right now that are doing well and are growing. But generally it ought to be much better in the past. There needs to be an economic revival.” PeopleThinkingCountryDonePhilosophyPastPurposeGrowthEconomicTaxesBarackRevivalEconomic Growth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I know we need more nuclear power in order - nuclear power, after all, is not dependent on fossil fuels and emits no greenhouse gases. I believe we're going to be able to have coal-fired plants that have zero emissions. We need to work on carbon sequestration technologies. I mean, there's a lot we can do together and achieve the objective, which a lot of people want, which is the reduction of greenhouse gases, and at the same time, have viable economic growth.” PeopleBelieveMeanTogetherI BelieveGrowthTechnologyEconomicAchievePlantEconomic GrowthFossil FuelNuclear Power Author:George W. Bush
“Faster economic growth helps raise the economy which raises revenues. And that helps us tackle the deficit. There's two things we've got to do to get rid of this debt. Deal with entitlements, that's why we're frustrated health care reform hasn't passed the senate yet.” HelpingCareGrowthEconomyEconomicHealth CareFrustratedEconomic GrowthEntitlementHealth Care Reform Author:Paul Ryan
“You've got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth. Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control.” GrowthEconomicTaxesEconomic Growth Author:Paul Ryan
“The problem in Peru is not so much poverty - it is inequality. The essence of the discourse in 2005 and 2006 is the same one that we have maintained in 2010 and 2011. My macroeconomic policy is to strengthen and ensure economic growth but with social inclusion.” ProblemGrowthPovertyEconomicPolicyInequalityInclusionEconomic Growth Author:Ollanta Humala
“When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that was all an illusion, that it wasn't growth based on real products and services, but just a bunch of paper shuffling and a house of cards, then what's gonna emerge, at some point, is a sense of resentment, a sense that the system's rigged, and it's not working for ordinary people. And it's not fulfilling the basic American dream.” PeopleRealDreamHouseGrowthEconomyEconomicIllusionFinancialResentmentAmerican DreamFulfillingOrdinary PeopleEconomic Growth Author:Barack Obama
“This is what the Democrats are fighting for. They're fighting for you not to have a job and still have health care so you can pursue your entrepreneurial risk of writing, painting, taking pictures. It's just such a pain in the rear end to have to have a job. It's so damn mean of this country to require people to have a job. It stifles people. It stifles creativity and economic growth to require people to have a job, to have health care. What a country. Man, are we horribly rotten mean to people.” PeopleMenWritingMeanCountryCarePainFightingGrowthCreativityRiskEconomicPaintingDemocratHealth CareEconomic GrowthEntrepreneurialTaking Pictures Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all deficit records. In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.” LongRunningTodayGrowthBreakCuttingEconomicTaxesRateEconomic GrowthParadoxical Author:John F. Kennedy
“We need to have the growth. If we simply look at this as being deficit-neutral, you're never going to get the type of tax reform and tax reductions that you need to get to sustain 3 percent economic growth. We really do believe that the tax code is what's holding back the American economy.” BelieveGrowthEconomyEconomicTaxesCodeEconomic Growth Author:Mick Mulvaney
“Growth works. What we're doing in the administration to spur growth in terms of regulatory form work. And what we're working is to make sure that those tax cuts add to that. We do believe that sustained 3 percent economic growth is possible and that that is the way you can balance the budget long-term.” BelieveGrowthTermCuttingEconomicBalanceTaxesEconomic Growth Author:Mick Mulvaney
“Why am I interested in deficits? The only way you balance the budget in this country long-term is through sustained economic growth. And that's what everything we are doing in this administration is aimed at that end goal.” CountryGoalGrowthEconomicBalanceEconomic Growth Author:Mick Mulvaney
“There is a need for more economic growth, for more job growth. But there is a need in some people for them to recognize that they have a role in making these problems better. And we can't - we can't ignore that.” PeopleProblemGrowthEconomicEconomic Growth Author:James Vance
“In 1990, about 1 percent of American corporate profits were taken in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. By 2002, it was up to 17 percent, and it'll be up to 20-25 percent very quickly. It's a major problem. Fundamentally, we have a tax system designed for a national, industrial, wage economy, which is what we had in the early 1900s. We now live in a global, asset-based, services world. And we need to have a tax system that follows the economic order or it's going to interfere with economic growth, it's going to reduce people's incomes, and it's going to damage the US.” WorldProblemGrowthEconomyTakenEconomicTaxesInterfereEconomic Growth Author:David Cay Johnston
“I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.” LittlesGrowthToo MuchEconomicCrisisMore MoneyEconomic GrowthLittle Money Author:Angela Merkel
“Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.” ProblemBigsLastsGrowthTermHalfCuttingEconomicTaxesArgumentIncreaseDemocratDecadesMeaningfulConclusionPrimariesJust OneDriversDeficitShort TermEconomic GrowthTax CutsEconomic ProblemsTax Increases Author:Bob Beauprez
“What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.” KindGovernmentEnergyGrowthCuttingEconomicLandHavensPolicyTaxesDemocratProductionsBurdenFocusedOpeningPermanentEconomic GrowthTax CutsOpening UpEnergy Production Author:Bob Beauprez
“If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.” IfsProblemAsksGrowthEconomicMajorsMassDrivenOrganizedOur SocietyEconomistFarmingEconomic GrowthManufacturingMechanization Author:Larry Page
“The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.” BelieveSocialGrowthEconomicSecurityPolicyPromiseRepublicanTaxesBudgetsRegulationBalancedSocial SecurityEconomic GrowthMedicareBalanced Budget Author:Rand Paul
“You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'” PeopleMayCountryEnoughGrowthRichEconomicSticksEnvyStuckEmsRevenueEconomic GrowthRich People Author:Rand Paul
“Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.” JobsLostGrowthMillionsClearCuttingEconomicPolicyProduceTaxesFellowsDemocraticFaultsPrioritiesEconomic GrowthTax Cuts Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.” ThinkingWellsRealityGrowthPresidentEconomyStudyCuttingEconomicTaxesRateRevenueEconomic GrowthPresident BushTax CutsPresident Kennedy Author:Mike Pence
“Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.” GrowthHurtStepsEconomicExplanationEconomic GrowthPublic Sector Author:John Podhoretz
“Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.” JobsGrowthTermEconomicAchieveCreatingDedicatedPresidencyShort TermEconomic GrowthCreating Jobs Author:John Podhoretz
“Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.” StatesMotivationalGrowthUnitedBusinessUnited StatesEconomicResponsibleEntrepreneurEnterpriseEconomic Growth Author:Ronald Reagan
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” HumansGrowthImaginationBusinessWonderLimitsIntelligencePatrioticEconomic GrowthBusiness GrowthHuman IntelligenceInspiring BusinessIntelligence Services Author:Ronald Reagan
“Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.” PhilosophyPoliticalGrowthEconomicEconomicsTradeGoodsGlobalizationEconomic GrowthSpursFree Trade Author:Robert Reich
“The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.” StatesPlayShowsJobsGrowthUnitedRaceRolesUnited StatesEconomicCreationArmsKeysDependsResearchResourcesEntrepreneurImmigrantsLockedEconomic GrowthArms RaceJob CreationAmerican Jobs Author:Eric Ries
“Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track.” GrowthEconomyEconomicPolicyTrackEconomic GrowthObamacareEliminatingImpedimentsBack On Track Author:Mitt Romney
“The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.” HomeJobsValuesGrowthInterestEconomicEventsLowsCrisisRateDestroyedDeclineEconomic GrowthRecessionsInterest RateMany Homes Author:Ben Bernanke
“Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.” IfsProblemGrowthEconomicTaxesRateSlow DownEconomic GrowthRaising Taxes Author:Paul Ryan
“In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.” YearsHardEnoughGovernmentChoicesGrowthPresidentBreakEconomicLimitsPercentCleanSizeSpendingEconomic GrowthGdpSize Of GovernmentFederal Spending Author:Paul Ryan