#economy

Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously. ↗

— Peter Welch

#american people #assure #chicken #control #counterparts

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies. ↗

— Keith Henson

#cost #cults #economy #employers #even

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#depends #developed #economy #emancipate #how

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#economy #exercise #expect #how #judge

Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#after #barring #better #between #economy

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#coin #economy #fixing #health #health care

I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#economy #i #i believe #i believe that #must

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#also #because #create #down #down the road

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#china #economy #exaggerated #experience #important

When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#college #concern #concerns #create #economy