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  • The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity. -- Perry Christie
  • Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity. -- Peter Orszag
  • I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment. -- Gale Norton
  • For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have. -- Tim Bishop
  • For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade. -- James Forrestal
  • Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity. -- Eugene Fama
  • It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity. -- Jerry A. Webman
  • Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean. -- Vladimir Putin
  • And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before. -- Marc Andreessen
  • Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment. -- Barry Commoner
  • Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity. -- Tim Holden
  • Lawmakers have good reason to want a healthy broadcast industry. Broadcast TV stations provide more than 186,000 jobs on an annual basis, which directly generate more than $30 billion in economic activity. -- Gordon Smith
  • Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
  • Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls. -- Bill Bryson
  • In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run. -- Toshihiko Fukui
  • My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody; it's not red or blue. -- Travis Kalanick
  • Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them as they do spending cuts, with little contraction in economic activity. -- Alan Greenspan
  • A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay. -- Marc Andreessen
  • Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society. -- Jimmy Reid
  • Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times. Capital was mobile; labor, less so. Economic activity (production, research, design, etc.) moved to any accessible country or region that had relatively inexpensive labor and human capital. -- Michael Spence
  • The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe. -- Timothy Geithner
  • We all pay federal taxes that we send to Washington and it is not unusual that as Americans we would expect some federal investment in the cities and metro areas because we're the ones that are generating the economic activity. -- Michael Nutter
  • Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange. -- Robert Higgs
  • What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down. -- Alan Greenspan
  • Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter than people. That's how I started. I watched the stock market, how equities reacted to change in levels of economic activity, and I could understand how price signals worked and how to forecast them. -- Stanley Druckenmiller
  • Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times. -- Tom Vilsack
  • The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity. -- David D. Aitken
  • Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity. -- Peter Orszag
  • Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation -- Francis Fukuyama
  • We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity. -- Hillary Clinton
  • All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow. -- Peter Drucker
  • Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity. -- Anita Roddick
  • [The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
  • the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development. -- Peter Dicken
  • No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity. -- Richard M. Weaver
  • British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,. -- David Frost
  • Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans. -- Arie de Geus
  • People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages. -- Narendra Modi
  • When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience. -- Barack Obama
  • State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain. -- Ian Bremmer
  • The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements. -- Andrey Illarionov
  • "Cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true. -- Walter E. Williams
  • My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue. -- Travis Kalanick
  • The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds. -- Hilaire Belloc
  • If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same interpretation and application of international rules of economic activity and world trade. -- Vladimir Putin
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