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“Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.”

Facts Problem Jobs America Moving President Loss Economy Bigger Deeper President Obama Franklin Great Depression Predecessors Job Loss Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Author:Martin O'Malley

“Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.”

Doe Has Beens Whole Happens Would Be Loses Loss Economy Groups Possibility Particular Higher Gains Acceptable Fixing Transactions Gains And Losses

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.”

Years Order Force Hours Loss Secret Economy Ready Through The Years Armed Forces

Author:Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

“Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.”

Important Use Night Loss Pleasure Economy Pure Tables Occasions Every Night Meanness Thrift

Book:Sixpence in Her Shoe

Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe

“If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.”

People Ifs Loss Views Economy Too Much Risk Greed Innovative Bankruptcy Market Economy Bail

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine”

Real Loss Economy Machines Consumers Gambling Slot Machines

Author:John Warren Kindt

“To save the banks from making losses that would wipe out their net worth, you'll have to get rid of Social Security. It means that you'll essentially have to abolish government and turn it over to the banking system to run, with an idea that the role of governments is to extract income from the economy to pay to the bondholders and the banks.”

Mean Ideas Government Running Turns Social Loss Pay Roles Economy Security Income Social Security Banking Wipe Abolish Banking System Net Worth Role Of Government

Author:Michael Hudson

“And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really isn't the problem we have. I mean that's where it came from, though. We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that's $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands - losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“It is true that building a green economy will not be good for everyone's jobs. Notably, people working in the fossil fuel industry will face major job losses. The communities in which these jobs are concentrated will also face significant losses. But the solution here is straightforward: Just Transition policies for the workers, families and communities who will be hurt as the coal, oil and natural gas industries necessarily contract to zero over roughly the next 30 years.”

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Author:Robert Pollin

“If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.”

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Author:Bernard Baruch

“Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.”

Has Beens Helping Might Loss Company Economy Failing Policy Succeed Smart Increase Entrepreneur Odds Might Have Been Public Policy

Author:Eric Ries

“You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.”

Ifs Loss Class Economy Workers Productivity Motivated Working Class Dynamics Disenfranchised Disenchanted

Author:James Sinegal

“Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.”

World Mean Jobs Turns Loss Economy Products Industry Higher Saved Around The World Fewer Steel Tariffs Steel Industry

Author:Thomas Sowell