Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we’ll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy. – Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. – Barack Obama
There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it’s a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent’s financial resources. – Andrew Nikiforuk
Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are generally not a problem for the economy as a whole and do not constitute deflation. – Ben Bernanke
As much as with increased exploration new gas reserves can be found, what must be obvious to all is that our oil and gas reserves are not renewable and they are diminishing, and to protect the generations to come, we must engage in nothing short of a radical shift in the diversification of the economy. – Anthony Carmona
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. – Bob Taft
When trouble strikes, which it always does – bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover – when trouble strikes, those board members who don’t understand or are not committed are not helpful. – Carol Bartz
So I’m definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy. – Boris Johnson
The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy. – Barry Ritholtz
Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going. – Austan Goolsbee
We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we’re not doing it with our schools. – Al Franken
The downturn following the collapse of Japan’s so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression. – Ben Bernanke
Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers’ skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy. – Ben Bernanke
For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy. – Alex Berenson
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression. – Ben Bernanke
If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can’t, both our personal health and our economy are doomed. – Andrew Weil
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow. – Calvin Coolidge
The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand. – Al D’Amato
Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one’s own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer. – Alan Greenspan
Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that ‘fine-tuning’ the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook. – Alex Tabarrok
Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down. – Antonio Villaraigosa
Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy. – Bidzina Ivanishvili
Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they ‘deserve’ it. – Alex Pareene
I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy. – Ben Bernanke
In 1994, Estonia became the first European country to adopt a flat tax, and its 26 percent flat tax dramatically energized what had been a faltering economy. Before adopting the flat tax, the Estonian economy was literally shrinking. In the eight years after 1994, Estonia experienced real economic growth – averaging 5.2 percent per year. – Arthur Laffer
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don’t need an explanatory principle, don’t invoke it. – Brian Greene