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It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#fact #governments #place #policies #put

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists. ↗

— Evan Davis

#cuts #demand #directly #economy #effect

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. ↗

— Evan Davis

#banks #borrow #borrowing #capital #cushion

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify. ↗

— Evan Davis

#consumption #element #enters #expensive #extra

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#life #matter #nothing #passion #passionate

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#governments #live #means #message #must

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. ↗

— Mark Twain

#conduct #control #controls #greater #laws

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#been #chronic #conditions #consumes #estimated

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#care #choice #greater #how #older

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum. ↗

— Evan Davis

#contracted #door #government #heart #here