Famous Quotes & Sayings

Housing activity, which has contributed significantly to economic growth over the past 2-1/2 years, has now passed its peak and will be largely neutral to negative over the next several quarters, ... This slowdown will be welcomed at the Federal Reserve.

Households had to spend a lot more on energy in 2005, and that's reflected in retail sales figures. Private consumption won't improve enough to sustain the economic upswing.

Housing starts dovetail with the stronger outlook on the economy.

Housing is the most vulnerable sector of the economy at this time.

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He's saying the economy is healthy. Inflation is OK for now, but it could become a problem, so we're not done raising rates yet.

I don't think starts will be as strong in '06 as they were in the last few years. I don't think sales will be as strong, but I still think the economy will do well.

I don't think manufacturing should be looked at independently. It is part of the economy. So, when the economy does well, and when there is investment, the sector does well.

I don't think investors are discouraged, they're just not sure what to do. People want to get this out of the way. We've got so many other things to work through, with the economy struggling and the budget.

Most traders will really be positioning for the October employment report. Economists are expecting that non-farm payrolls rose by approximately 50,000 during the month, providing evidence that with two straight months of employment growth, the jobs picture is finally turning around.

Marcy Kaptur

Mr. Speaker, there are plenty of signs that the United States economy is not working well. One of the signs is our national debt.

Phil Gramm

Mr. Chairman, please don't try to fix an economy that isn't broken, ... Don't become so frightened by success that you throw wet blankets on a fire that isn't burning.

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Long-term interest rate levels reflect real economic growth, inflationary expectations and risk premium, and it may be possible to minimize the risk premium (component) through government policy.

I think overall it's quite a good legacy and the performance of the economy has been quite good.

William Ramsay

I think Russia has made a serious mistake. It has demonstrated its willingness to use its gas as a political and economic tool.

We're a generation away from those guys, and we have a different economic scale to live up to. Our generation is lucky if we have jobs that we like and people that we can relate to.

We'd talk to the villagers and try to find out who was an insurgent and find their cache. In one site, we found over 11 tons of explosives. They would sell it to the insurgents. You're not only fighting the insurgency; you're fighting an economy that's poor.

When it comes to the economics of baseball, there's no question he's been a hawk and is a hawk. But I don't think that meant that he didn't want to win. His excitement right now is undeniable.

We don't feel that's effective, economical or practical.

Jeff Sessions

Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

There is no pure free-market economy.

I can understand why they do it. It's a very economical and efficient way to operate.

The outlook for the New Zealand economy points to relative weakness.

Winona LaDuke

I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.

Brunello Cucinelli

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

Today's disappointing labor report supports the notion that the emerging soft patch in the U.S. economy is here to stay.

Hans Jonas

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

We had all sorts of judgments about where the economy is heading before the hurricane. The hurricane alters our judgments.

Jay Rockefeller

The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.

Clint Eastwood

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

Rodrigo Rato

We see the world economy growing faster than we expected in September.