954 Quotes About Economy-and-economics

Has the Canadian economy and its' workforce been elevated? Are they being asked to do more? This is what we wanted to know. Eighty-six per cent said yes, absolutely'; employees are doing things they never had to do before . . . these same people told us they need the right tools and that they can't just use a telephone and desktop software anymore.

We hope wind projects will be anchors to the rural economy.

The fact that we're not getting a spillover into the rest of the economy is pretty good news. The question that core inflation asks: Is the price of everything going to go through the roof? So far the answer is no.

Because the economy is strong and job growth is strong, the consumer has not felt much pain, but that is likely to change in the next few months, ... I think we are headed for a period of economic weakness mostly related to the oil situation.

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

Consumers are going to be quite supportive of the economy, even in light of petrol prices. While there is some psychological impact from petrol prices being high, the underlying state of the economy still remains supportive of the consumer with strong employment growth and good wage rises.

It's simple economics. When someone is going to increase your costs, it's going to have an adverse affect on your business. It will either make (businesses) cut jobs or not hire new ones.

At some point the Fed has to decide how strong do we want this economy.

I think the surprise will be that housing prices and housing sales will decelerate, but the economy will do just fine.