The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.
Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.
The power to regulate the economy is the same thing as the power to distribute favors.
The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.
Russia should be an effective and competitive state with a sustainable economy, developed social and political system flexible to changes domestically and globally.
I didn't get here for my acting. . . but I love show business.
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank needs to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. The decision makers then need to reach judgment about the probabilities, costs and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.
We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity. . For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.
I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee.
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. . . . Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence (and) avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt. . . not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.
But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.
Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.