#fiscal

Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#crises #dealing #economy #financial #financial crises

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#always #assume #cannot #expect #facilitate

I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#am #area #belief #competitiveness #consolidation

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#been #begin #defect #did #euro

And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short. ↗

— David E. Price

#budget #cliff #discretionary #domestic #fall

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires. ↗

— Ron Johnson

#conservatives #election #fiscal #make #months

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#being #bit #country #fiscal #fiscal responsibility

When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#cutting #entitlement #entitlement programs #fiscal #just

Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos. ↗

— Bill Scott

#agency #certainly #chaos #children #department

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion. ↗

— John Spratt

#ago #billion #clinton #clinton administration #country