954 Quotes About Economy-and-economics

What Sept. 11 has done to the economy is to accelerate, hasten and deepen the decline, but the decline existed before. The attack gave it the extra push in terms of retail sales. If you don't have a paycheck coming in, it doesn't matter how much cost of gasoline has gone down.

It looks to me, with a slowing economy, the first half of the coming year is going to be pretty challenging but the second half will be a little easier. For the investor, the challenge is to stay on the sidelines and watch what the growth expectations are ? the challenge is to keep your eye on the trend line and when the markets assumptions get way above, you sell, and when they get way below, you buy.

While there have been some encouraging signs that Japan's economy is declining less sharply, most forecasters do not see a recovery this year or into next,

Fuel cells and the hydrogen economy are absolutely the next great race for industry.

We expect our 1999 sales to grow faster than the global economy as a result of new product introductions in each of our business units, expected demand for aircraft safety systems, market-share growth in the aerospace aftermarket, capacity expansion in turbochargers and recovery in the electronics market,

All economists agree tax policy has an effect on the economy. The hard thing is to figure out how to measure these effects in the real world.

Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas and increasingly destructive storms.

The challenge is to build a new economy and to do it at wartime speed before we miss so many of the nature's deadlines that the economic system begins to unravel,

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to yea' - but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.