“Murphys law of economic policy’: Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed.”

Life is not a multiple choice test, it’s an open-book essay exam.

And there would be an inventory pileup. And then – bam – businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters.

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

They have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman’s baton with extraordinary skill.

There is a kind of a cascading chain, … If one can’t sell, then that business doesn’t buy and that means the next business doesn’t sell, and the previous business doesn’t sell, and so on.

I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.

When it comes to this pandemic – and the economic recovery – we are not Democrats or Republicans. We are Americans, and we will be there for one another.

Together we’ll bring an end to this economic crisis and put people back to work.

We need an economy that works for all, not just the 1%.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict.

Victory is always with economics.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It’s about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That’s it, that simple.