“Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.” IdeasHelpingHomeJobsEnergyStarsCommonEconomyBillsChinaLocalsCommon SenseConstructionEfficiencyManufacturingBoostEnergy EfficiencyHomeownersOutsourced Author:Peter Welch
“It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.” HardUseHomeGovernmentJobsFallHouseEconomyCuttingTaxesProgramPropertyDisappearLocalsOwnersHouseholdSmall BusinessRevenueLoanEnthusiasticProspectsBusiness OwnersLocal GovernmentSmall Business OwnersCollateralProperty TaxesHouse Prices 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
“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
“Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible. By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.” IfsMenHumansDoneHomeAmericaSocialTermEconomyMovementDrawsMen And WomenRelationInstitutionsCompetitionExtremesRuinsCommunismLiberationContractsCooperationFragileUnitsDefiningInfluentialHuman SocietyMarxistReciprocityIrreversibleSocial InstitutionsRussian Economy Author:Ruth Wisse
“In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.” UseHomeDesireEconomyObjectsDrinkTasteOfficeMarketingPrimariesConsumersExpensiveCriteriaAppliancesUsabilityObjects Of DesireSoft Drinks Author:Donald A. Norman
“I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the legacy of opportunity for the next generation by balancing our budget in a way that protects our values and ensuring that every family will be able to own and protect the value of their most important asset, their home.” WayWantImportantHomeAbleValuesNextOpportunityStrongEconomyGrowingGenerationsCenturyProtectLegacyBridgesPreservesBudgetsAssets21st CenturyNext GenerationGrowing Economy Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and free, upon which should rest, in well-distributed ownership, the numerous homes of enlightened, equal, and fraternal citizens... Nor should our vast tracts of so-called desert lands be yielded up to the monopoly of corporations or grasping individuals, as appears to be much the tendency under the existing statute.” PeopleShouldWellsLongHas BeensHomePoliticsIndividualEconomyRichLandCitizensEqualTendenciesCorporationsLiberalismEnlightenedCivilizedBroadsOwnershipMonopolyGraspingAcresStatutesFraternal Author:Grover Cleveland
“In Harlem, for instance, all of the stores are owned by white people, all of the buildings are owned by white people. The black people are just there - paying rent, buying the groceries; but they don't own the stores, clothing stores, food stores, any kind of stores; don't even own the homes that they live in. They are all owned by outsiders, and for these run-down apartment dwellings, the black man in Harlem pays more money than the man down in the rich Park Avenue section.” PeopleMenKindHomeRunningPoliticsBlackWhitePayEconomyRichBuildingHe ManStoresInstanceParksLiberalismBuyingBlack PeopleClothingsMore MoneyOutsidersApartmentSectionsAvenuesDwellingGroceriesHarlemPaying Rent Author:Malcolm X
“It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them a little too much about the tragic frailties of human governments, but it has also driven home to them that they must control firmly political and economic power, which, handed over to any government in their land, could be easily used to oppress them.” HumansLittlesHomeWisdomGovernmentWould BePoliticalUsedPoliticsEconomyToo MuchEconomicLandTaughtDrivenLiberalismTragicDistrustSuspiciousFrailtyEconomic Power Author:Ndabaningi Sithole
“That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.” ReasonHomeEconomyGoneTrack Author:Franklin Raines
“The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.” HomeTodaySecretEconomyRichBagsGlobal EconomyKept SecretsBest Kept SecretsEconomy Today Author:Tom Peters