Economic Outcome Quotes

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

The people see the layoffs. We must also show them the payoffs of trade.

Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.

GDP simply measures the circulation of money in the economy, not whether or not the outcome of using that money is positive or negative.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.'

The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.

If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

Presidential scandals have traditionally and historically no effect on the market.

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

Yes, negotiating is about money and the bottom line, but a lot of times, it's much more emotional and complex than that. Realizing that the economic outcome may not be the other party's top priority gives you more chips to play with and will enable you to achieve better results than you may have anticipated.

Whether a president can truly improve, or damage, an economy remains an open question.

I do not believe that as a country we are completely ill-prepared for no-deal Brexit. It is not the optimal solution it is not the best outcome for Britain, we will do much better than people expect.

I think Brexit is disappointing from an economic perspective.

If you look at the market cap of Ethereum before the hard fork and the split into Ethereum Classic, the combined market cap of Ethereum and Ethereum Classic is greater than the market cap before the split - and everybody got what they want.