Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments – like bonds, stocks and savings accounts – so they can spend more later. – Adam Davidson
When you make a movie outside the system and it’s successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit. – Brian De Palma
General Electric, NBC’s parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries. – Bernie Sanders
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. – C. Wright Mills
You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you’re competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work. – Clyde Tombaugh
There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it’s a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent’s financial resources. – Andrew Nikiforuk
Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future. – Barry Ritholtz
Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly. – Ben Bernanke
After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street. – Bernie Sanders
It’s not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me. – Bjorn Borg
The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual’s not going to work. – Andrew Nikiforuk
I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem. – Bill Nighy
If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it. – Alex Pareene
My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada’s nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind. – Claire Danes
On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda – we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics. – Angela Merkel
I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about. – Ben Stein
We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college. – Alan Shepard
Now that I’m a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers. – Ben Bernanke
The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital – capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations. – Clayton M. Christensen
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets. – Chuck Grassley
There are a number of institutions globally where the Federal Reserve typically leads the U.S. effort to work with financial regulators from other countries, and we try to, to the extent possible, establish international standards for how – the amount of capital a bank should hold, for example, or how much. – Ben Bernanke
Massachusetts has prohibited most financial advisers from using titles like ‘certified senior adviser,’ and some of the largest insurers, including MetLife and Genworth Financial, have similar rules. – Charles Duhigg
Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans. – Ben Bernanke
Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people. – Bill Gross
When you have a lot of money, there’s so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don’t have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can’t really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product? – Alexa Von Tobel
So many times I’ve heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won’t really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It’s a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter. – Alice Dreger
Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter’s deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain. – Brendan I. Koerner
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty. – Barry Ritholtz