#economy

But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#bottom #build #class #coming #convention

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy. ↗

— Andy Stern

#because #both #disappearing #economy #global

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult? ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#economy #society #wages #wealth #men

Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep . . . trump the need to preserve your credit score, or purchase a new gizmo. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#credit #economy #money #unemployed #money

Markets weed out inefficient practices, but only when no one has sufficient power to manipulate them. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#change

The power to tax is the power to destroy. ↗

— John Marshall

#taxes #taxing #economy

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value. ↗

— Joe Biden

#budgeting #economy #value #economy

Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#finance #life #moral #success #experience

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are. ↗

— John Perkins

#economy #fate #free-will #life

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#government #like #rest #security #social