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Economy Quotes
"Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China."
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"In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed."
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"I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years."
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"There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding."
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"The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons."
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"The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind."
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"The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year."
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"Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich."
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"Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs."
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"Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary."
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"The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job."
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"The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted."
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"Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back."
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"Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal."
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"In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties."
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"Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed."
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"Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly."
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"Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf."
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"The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans."
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"I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit."
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"A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems."
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"Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit."
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"A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation."
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"The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."
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"More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999."
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"I will continue to stay very focused on the economy."
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"While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day."
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"The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy."
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"First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated."
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"Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that."
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"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany."
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"The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss."
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"It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy."
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"The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago."
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"And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails."
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"While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant."
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"There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes."
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"We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names."
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"I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet."
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"Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda."
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"However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy."
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