“States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to suffer economic decline; those with low and falling tax burdens are more likely to enjoy strong economic growth.” StatesSufferingFallStrongEnjoyGrowthEconomicTaxesLowsBurdenRisingDeclineEconomic GrowthTax Burden Author:Lawrence Kudlow
“Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth. It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive state solely because of its weather and natural resources. So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving California. It takes some doing. And the Left has done it.” PeopleHas BeensStatesDoneMovingTurnsLeftGrowthNaturalKnownCenturyResourcesLeavingWeatherCaliforniaProductive20th CenturyNatural ResourcesPlaces To GoContractionsDynamismExodus Author:Dennis Prager
“We must see that regional imbalances in the growth of various parties of the country are removed and all the states progress evenly. We shall ensure that all citizens of the country get full opportunity to contribute their might towards India's progress.” CountryStatesMightOpportunityGrowthPartyProgressCitizensIndiaVariousImbalance Author:Rajiv Gandhi
“Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.” MeanStatesGrowthEconomyWasteCorruptionDeeperInterventionInefficiency Author:Ian Bremmer
“I accept the proposition that there has been a significant improvement in underlying productivity growth in the United States, that it is very closely tied to improvements in information and communications technology, and that it is likely to spread around the world. But I resist the new economy label because it seems to encourage a disrespect for the old rules that could seriously undermine our success in taking advantage of the new opportunities.” WorldHas BeensStatesSeemsOpportunityGrowthUnitedAcceptingTechnologyUnited StatesEconomyInformationCommunicationAdvantageSpreadProductivityImprovementSignificantAround The WorldLabelsTiedPropositionsDisrespectNew OpportunityTaking AdvantageCommunication TechnologyInformation And Communication Author:Laurence Meyer
“Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.” FirstsStillsStatesGovernmentPoliticalOpportunityLostGrowthRealizingLosesLibertyStepsRightsCitizensFundamentalsConstantPropertyLocalsSavingFirst StepsEncroachmentAmerican LibertyLocal GovernmentPerishingPolitical Change Author:James Bovard
“When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in more than 200,000 jobs, ... She has not. We have lost jobs to outsourcing and globalization and to sending our jobs and industries to foreign countries.” CountryStatesJobsLostGrowthEconomicNew YorkIndustryOfficeClintonRanGlobalizationEconomic GrowthForeign CountriesOutsourcingNew York State Author:David Brenner
“Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.” MindWellsCountryStatesLanguageGrowthMountainRiversNativeEmpiresRivers And Mountains Author:William Hazlitt
“In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization.” StatesGrowthEconomyMajorsLowsEuropeProductionsIncomeCapitalistStagnationDifferentiation Author:Noam Chomsky
“In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It's hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract.” HardStatesRememberSocialGrowthDangerousPolicyEuropeWelfareMidstContractsThreateningRecessionsXenophobiaWelfare StateRemnantsAusterityUltrasSocial Contract Author:Noam Chomsky
“We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization very close to being a "Panther Baby". He knew, he came from that experience of the Black Panthers, and accounting for all his contradictions and process of growth, he achieved politically through gangsta rap things that no conscious rapper has achieved, such as establishing political, ethical, and moral codes between Crips and Bloods in the United States.” ShouldStatesRememberPoliticalCertainProcessBlackGrowthUnitedMoralUnited StatesBloodBabyDegreesConsciousRapCodeContradictionEthicalRapperAccountingPanthersMoral CodeGangstaBlack PantherGangsta RapCrips Author:Bocafloja
“With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.” FirstsStatesGovernmentCareNamesGrowthTermPartyMistakeEconomicProductsVictoryInvolvedDemocraticShouldersOccasionsBarackHealth CareAgendasExpensesPortionsGrossChipsExpandingCliffsDemocratic PartyEconomic GrowthMarginsEntitlementGross Domestic ProductOverreachingFiscal Cliff Author:George Will
“We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the spotted owl, the old-growth forest. But usually it stops there. To me, biodiversity is the full spectrum. Species conservation is not only about wilderness conservation. ItÂ’s also about protecting the livelihood of people even while changing the dominant relationship that humans have had with other species. In India, itÂ’s an economic issue, not just an ecological one.” PeopleHumansStatesGrowthUnitedUnited StatesIssuesEconomicMovementProtectIndiaSpeciesFocusedCampaignsForestsWildernessDominantConservationSpectrumEcologicalLivelihoodOwlBiodiversityEndangered SpeciesEconomic Issues Author:Vandana Shiva
“I can't possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate will be at the end of one year. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower.” YearsWellsLittlesI CanEndsStatesShowsJobsGrowthUnitedUnited StatesVirtueFourSeeingPolicyKeysDependsPeriodsCompetitionRateEmployeeFour YearsGlobesUnemploymentUnemployment RateJob Growth Author:Mitt Romney
“You get growth in the United States, the rest of the world will grow.” WorldStatesGrowsGrowthUnitedUnited States Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend.” MeanStatesFallGrowthUnitedResultsUnited StatesPolicyHappeningsEuropeInvestmentIncomeEmploymentDeclineWagesDeliberateShrinksStagnantDeflationCapital Investment Author:Michael Hudson
“I think it is important to stay open to the world around you, so that you are constantly in a state of growth and evolution, which can only happen through inspiration.” ThinkingWorldImportantStatesInspirationHappensGrowthEvolution Author:Cara Santana
“I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination.” KindLittlesPersonsTwoSoulStatesGrowthNaturalWatchesTaughtMonthsDaughterTwentiesRateDevelopingMy DaughterExpansionInclinationTwo MonthsTwenty Two Author:Daniel Gillies
“The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.” NeedsStatesMightGrowthNegativeImmaturity Author:John Dewey
“It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.” KnowsYearsStatesDifficultGrowthEconomyEconomicExampleEuropeYears AgoWeakDollarsRateZoneTiedCurrencyArgentinaParameters Author:Vladimir Putin
“I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsChildrenHas BeensStatesFactsFeelingsGrowthUnitedCitiesUnited StatesEconomicAreasStrongerRecoveryDivisionUrbanEconomic GrowthManufacturingStagnationRural AreasUrban Areas Author:Barack Obama
“In my view, the state should be active and work in cooperation with private businesses to spur growth that's sustainable and inclusive. The policy process is about co-creating and co-shaping of markets, creating new opportunities for business investment - and negotiating a better deal for the public too.” ShouldStatesOpportunityProcessGrowthViewsDealsPolicyCreatingInvestmentActiveCooperationSpursNegotiatingNew Opportunity Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not a less active one. Yet we still hear the dogma that we should just fix market failure by focusing on science and infrastructure, and to "level the playing field."” IfsWantNeedsShouldStillsStatesTodayGrowthLevelsFieldsInnovationActiveDrivenDogmaInfrastructurePlaying FieldsMarket Failure Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a modern social compact - one that allows the state to socialize not only risks but also rewards. Maybe then innovation-led growth will also become growth that includes all of us.” StatesSocialGrowthTermDealsRiskModernNeededInnovationInvestmentRewardsMissionsCompactNew Deal Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Nothing about economic growth in the United States over the course of the past 40, 50 years, during which time this has been continually happening, would indicate that we are being harmed in an overall sense by this.” YearsHas BeensStatesPastCoursesGrowthUnitedUnited StatesEconomicHappeningsEconomic Growth Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Because national borders are eroding, because of the growth of non-state actors. It's a different kind of a world. We are tied down by a tiny little country - Iraq. It's amazing, given the disparity in military economic strength. It's a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries, and there are new kinds of actors and we're feeling our way as to how to deal with them.” WorldWayKindLittlesDifferentCountryStatesFeelingsProblemBigsActorsGivenGrowthDealsEconomicMilitaryIraqTinyBoundariesBordersDifferent KindsTiedSpillsBig ProblemsDisparityNational Borders Author:Brent Scowcroft
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” PeopleLifeKindStatesLife IsPassionWishProcessGoalGrowthChangeFailingInspirational LifeFailureBecomingCombinationLive LifeLive With PassionStarting AnewLove And PassionPassion For LifeDiscovering SelfDiscovery In LifeFinding Your PathProcess Of LifeLife And Passion Author:Anais Nin
“As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.” CountryStatesRememberEnergyGrowthRolesEconomyPolicySafetyDebateRegulationUnnecessaryExpandingDoing NothingColoradoLawmakersPublic SafetyEnergy Policy Author:Bob Beauprez
“Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.” StatesMotivationalGrowthUnitedBusinessUnited StatesEconomicResponsibleEntrepreneurEnterpriseEconomic Growth Author:Ronald Reagan
“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
“Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.” StatesShowsJobsLawGrowthNumbersImpossibleOne ThingEffectsNegativeImpactWorkersFactorsReasonableMultitudesWagesEconomistJob Growth Author:Eliot Spitzer