“There are two economic realities in America today. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.” YearsTwoShowsRealityTodayJobsAmericaGrowthNumbersHalfRecordsEconomicSixRemainsRateSignificantIncomeInequalityPaychecksStagnationIncome InequalityAmerica TodayCensusJob Growth Author:Lester Holt
“The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America.” AmericaStrongGrowthEconomyHighestRateLatinVery StrongLatin America Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.” CountryAmericaSocialGrowthPovertyEconomyGrowingPolicyHighestDown AndRateExtremesFinanceInequalityFundLatinProgressiveLowestInflationShamefulLatin AmericaHaitiColombiaExtreme PovertySocial PolicyGrowing Economy Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the future growth potential of the economies. And, if this policy works, then the yen will probably strengthen.” PeopleIfsGrowthInterestEconomyPolicyDollarsRateTradingGuessingInterest RateFuture Growth Author:Jamie Dimon
“Economic growth, profitability, prosperity, jobs, increased jobs, increased wages, they're able to get that tax rate down to 15% and we're gonna call it tax relief, not tax breaks, not tax loopholes. It's important to control and reclaim the language here.” ImportantAbleJobsLanguageGrowthBreakEconomicTaxesRateProsperityReliefWagesEconomic GrowthLoopholesProfitabilityTax Breaks Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If we look at everybody's darling, China, there is an analogue called Taiwan that is inhabited by the Chinese as well. But the standard of living and of innovation of the Taiwanese economy cannot be compared with the Chinese growth rate.” IfsWellsLooksGrowthEconomyStandardsInnovationRateChinaChineseDarlingStandards Of LivingTaiwanAnalogue Author:Garry Kasparov
“I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.” PeopleThinkingMeanImportantYoungGrowthCommunitySeeingHighestResourcesRateAidsHivPreventionHiv Aids Author:Barack Obama
“You can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. You can't have an economy that over the last three years keeps slowing down its growth rate. You can't have kids coming out of college, half of them can't find a job today, or a job that's commensurate with their college degree. We have to get our economy going.” PeopleYearsKidsTodayJobsLastsThreeGrowthHalfMillionsStruggleEconomyCollegeDegreesRateComing OutThree YearsSlow DownSlowingCollege Degree Author:Mitt Romney
“The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone up very nicely. But we have been producing students at a rapid rate; they're competing for funds and therefore they're more frustrated. I think there's a certain sense of weariness in the intellectual realm, it's not in any way peculiar to economics, it's a general proposition.” ThinkingWayHas BeensCertainGrowthGoneGreaterStudentsIntellectualEconomicsRatePopulationRealmsFundPeculiarRelevantFrustratedCompetingPropositionsRapidsVery NiceWeariness Author:Kenneth Arrow
“Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth.” GrowthInterestIncreaseRateEmploymentInequalityReducingInterest Rate Author:Gerald Epstein
“There are times when a market such as housing, transportation or the stock or mortgage market keep rising and people with capital want to join in this growth. Soon the markets become overheated, partly because of the abundance of investment money and speculation. This is when the government should raise interest rates and increase the cost of borrowed money. Governments are shy about doing this because it could cause the very recession. Yet this is the best time to do this so that the inevitable recession never reaches the magnitude of the recent Great Recession.” PeopleWantShouldGovernmentCausesGrowthInterestCostIncreaseRaisesInvestmentRateInevitableRisingAbundanceShySpeculationHousingMortgageTransportationBorrowedMagnitudeRecessionsBest TimesInterest RateBorrowed MoneyGreat Recession Author:Philip Kotler
“There are two economic realities in America in 2016. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.” RealityGrowthEconomicRateSignificantInequalityStagnation Author:Lester Holt
“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
“The Donald Trump trade doctrine is this. America will trade with any country, so long as that deal meets these three criterion: You increase the GDP growth rate, you decrease the trade deficit, and you strengthen the manufacturing base.” LongCountryGrowthTradeRate Author:Peter Navarro
“What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for global inequality is relative growth rates between poor and rich countries.” DifferentCountrySometimesGrowthPoorRichRateForgottenInequalityRelative Author:Branko Milanovic
“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
“The reason we've been growing at 1.8 percent for the last eight, ten years, which is way below the historical average, is in large part because of our tax code. It is important to us to get the biggest, broadest tax reduction, tax cuts, tax reform that we can possibly get because it's the only way we get back to 3 percent growth. That's what's driving all of this, how do you get the American economy back on that historical growth rate of 3 percent and out of these doldrums of 1.8, 1.9 that we had of the previous Barack Obama administration?” ImportantReasonGrowthEconomyCuttingTaxesHistoricalRateDrivingBarackCode Author:Mick Mulvaney
“Obviously, you can't operate a system at 100 percent capacity. You need room for growth. And because there are peak times, you need surge capacity. But it is easier to reduce and manage excess capacity in larger units than smaller, especially when you have a diversity of users who have different peak periods and different growth rates. That's why the utility model is intriguing.” DifferentGrowthDiversityRateManageUsersUtilityIntriguing Author:Steven Pearlstein
“In the U.S., you couldn't have job creation with interest rates of 30 or 40 percent. They had a philosophy that said job creation was automatic. I wish it were true. Just a short while after hearing, from the same preachers, sermons about how globalization and opening up capital markets would bring them unprecedented growth, workers were asked to listen to sermons about "bearing pain." Wages began falling 20 to 30 percent, and unemployment went up by a factor of two, three, four, or ten.” PhilosophyPainFallWishGrowthInterestCreationRatePreacherGlobalizationInterest Rate Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.” WayHumansProblemYoungEnergyCausesGrowthReligiousEconomicKeysRootsEnvironmentalRatePopulationTensionEmpoweringAddressesYoung WomenProvenImprovingPublic HealthUnendingFertilityLoomingRoot CauseHuman PopulationEmpower Yourself Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“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
“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
“The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.” GrowthInterestDecisionHigherTaxesDifficultyRateRecoveryUsaJoblessInflationInterest RateSluggish Author:Karl Rove
“Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.” IfsProblemGrowthEconomicTaxesRateSlow DownEconomic GrowthRaising Taxes Author:Paul Ryan
“As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.” KindDifferentMotherGrowthLeaderIssuesRatePopulationDimensionsDifferent KindsPopulation GrowthWorld PopulationWoman Leader Author:Benazir Bhutto