“Of course, the UK is a significant economy that makes up a quarter of American exports to the EU, more than 50 percent of our exports in certain sectors and over 25 percent of the government procurement opportunities we have in Europe. Brexit reduces the size of the TTIP deal for the United States, and there will need to be an adjustment of expectations accordingly, but Brexit underscores the value of reaching an agreement at this critical moment in the evolution of Europe.” NeedsStatesMomentsGovernmentCertainValuesCoursesOpportunityUnitedDealsUnited StatesEconomyEvolutionExpectationsPercentEuropeSizeCriticalSignificantReachingAgreementQuartersAdjustmentCritical MomentsProcurement Author:Michael Froman
“This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue, and I think that the leading economies are very pragmatic and efficient in addressing the issues facing the European economy. That is why we keep approximately 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros.” ThinkingLongFactsEconomyIssuesPercentEuropeGoldOilReformGasEfficientCurrencyReservesDependenceEvidentPragmaticEuroOverdueOil And Gas Author:Vladimir Putin
“The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.” ThinkingWayTwoOpportunityTechnologyEconomyGrowingPercentFlowTradeInvestmentRateEnormousChineseIndianTwo Ways Author:Manmohan Singh
“It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are contributing to. To function effectively those markets and the men and women who shape them have to command trust and confidence, because we all rely on the market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not be 100 percent true, if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that should be a problem for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that absolutely clear.” IfsMenShouldMayImportantPlayProblemGamesRolesEconomyClearWillingHe ManIntegrityShapesPerceptionPercentMen And WomenFunctionFinancialCommandRelyTransparencyContributingFinancial MarketsRigged Author:Hillary Clinton
“Either you can save the economy, or you can save the One Percent from losing a single penny.” EconomyLosingPercentPennies 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.” PeopleIfsWayMeanWholeProblemValuesFallLossEconomyLandPercentAssetsGumCulprit Author:Warren Buffett
“We've seen tremendous progress in many ways under President [Barack] Obama. I mean, if we think about where the economy was when he got in - you know, we were losing more than 700,000 jobs a month. The unemployment rate was skyrocketing. And now it's at under 5 percent, so there is a lot of progress that has happened.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayMeanJobsPresidentEconomyProgressHappenedMonthsLosingPercentRateBarackUnemploymentPresident Barack ObamaUnemployment Rate Author:Julian Castro
“For the workers and their families, being able to bring home a living wage helps their families and, by extension, helps our economy. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer-based. We know that when lower- and middle-class families have money and disposable income, they spend it. That puts money back into the economy. It's a win-win for everybody: Not just for the individual, not just production at a specific company (like Nissan), but for the greater good.” KnowsHelpingHomeAbleWinningIndividualCompanyClassEconomyGreaterMiddlePercentWorkersProductionsIncomeConsumersMiddle ClassExtensionsSeventiesDisposableGreater GoodWin WinLiving WageMiddle Class Family Author:Nina Turner
“In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.” PeopleAmericaSufferingEconomyFinePercent Author:Nina Turner
“In economies in which women work, men and women in relationships make about the same amount of money, or women make more. Women are 40 percent of breadwinners in America, and that number's been rising.” MenAmericaNumbersEconomyAmountPercentMen And WomenRisingBreadwinner Author:Stephen Marche
“A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent, 1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.” WorldMightLevelsCasesEconomyPossibilityHigherPercentFinancialCreditFragileIrelandBankingMagnitudeHigher LevelRatiosSwitzerlandGdpBanking SystemFinancial SystemIcelandCyprus Author:Alan M. Taylor
“What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent - almost - own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States.” PeopleWorldLooksCountryStatesCareTodayWealthUnitedUnited StatesEconomyMajorsPercentDemocraticBottomIncomeSocialismAround The WorldHealth CareProvidingImmoralRiggedDemocratic Socialism Author:Bernie Sanders
“Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?” PeopleThinkingLooksDoeEconomyFinePercentDemocrat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.” PeopleEconomyStreetsWallPercentCorporateExecutives Author:Michael Moore
“More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.” HomeNationsCommunityEconomyPercentImpactAssGood TimesPositive ImpactHomeownersHomeownership Author:Randy Neugebauer
“Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.” YearsGrowthCasesEconomyGrowingEconomicBalanceMajorsHighestPercentCrisisCreditDebtCardsInequalityBritainHouseholdCrashTransfersCredit CardTextbooksRatiosGdpEconomic Crisis Author:Frances O'Grady
“I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.” ShouldLastsClassEconomyCuttingMiddleTaxesPercentRaisesMiddle ClassTax Cuts Author:Barack Obama
“Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsLooksSaidI CanTurnsThreePresidentTermResultsEconomyWeekMonthsPercentYears AgoPresident ObamaThree YearsUnemploymentPropositions Author:Mitt Romney
“Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.” LooksStatesGovernmentPresidentLevelsEconomyTakenPercentSpendingCeaseLocalsPresident ObamaGdpGovernment SpendingFree Economy Author:Mitt Romney
“I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.” WantGovernmentTurnsLevelsEconomyAmountTaxesPercentRaisesDemocratDrivenFederal GovernmentCapsPrivate Sector Author:Mitt Romney
“We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.” WantEconomyPercentGoogle Author:Eric Schmidt
“In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.” StillsIdeasEconomyMiddleTaxesPercentSpendingDisasterClimbingHikingUnemploymentReducingPrescriptionsRecessionsRaising Taxes Author:Joe Biden
“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.” AcceptingClassTechnologyEconomyStudentsTenPercentBottomInstituteMassachusettsMit Author:Thomas Sowell
“The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.” PeopleCompanyEconomyFiveToo MuchMediaHealthyPercent Author:Ted Turner
“President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s when Wall Street reached record high levels and the economy produced lots of jobs.” JobsPresidentLevelsEconomyRecordsStreetsWallEqualPercentRaisesClintonRatePresident ObamaProposalHigh LevelPresident Clinton Author:Juan Williams