Alain Dehaze Quotes

Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus, and we've done okay not because of it, but despite it.

I have a lot of sympathy for every ailing economy …. The question is not whether you have sympathy. The question is what would be the right measure to help alleviate the situation.

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

I don't accept as an article of faith that lots of short-term stimulus boosts the economy and gets us back on the long-term trajectory.

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.

It is better to implement reforms in times of economic strength.

We need to show that Europe is investing in growth and not only in rigor and austerity.

Eventually, the economy will work well when you reduce subsidies. People have got used to getting some handouts from governments.

For too long, our nation has relied on low interest rates rather than undertaking the necessary long term necessary economic reforms.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment checks and on welfare we're going to dig us out of this mess.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.

I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.