#recess

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess? ↗

— Robert Byrd

#approval #congress #every #every time #go

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#apparently #being #between #broad #changed

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#his #job #lose #loses #neighbor

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions. ↗

— James Grant

#life #misplaced #prolongs #recessions #sustains

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. ↗

— William Greider

#bankrupt #bottom #economic #economic policy #economy

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#big #economy #exporting #global #global economy

I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#better #counteract #crisis #deep #ethos

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. ↗

— James Buchan

#body #business #character #depression #economic

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#especially #middle #raising #raising taxes #recession

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. ↗

— Phaedrus

#carefully #few #hidden #intelligence #mind