Zachary Karabell Quotes

None of today’s leading indicators existed a century ago. They were invented to measure the economies of the industrial nation-states of the mid-20th Century… The 21st Century, however, is proving more difficult to measure.

There is no single sustainable model for national success. … the American model, which has indeed been successful, is not available to others, because our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it.

Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.

No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years” than gross domestic product.

The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend them against the overtaxed.

Many will see [globalization] as little more than a mask used by certain economic elites for taking away the voice of the individual citizen.

America is as much an economic phenomenon as it is a nation.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

Middle class prosperity—economics—depended on middle class power—politics.

What you need to be concerned about is the rate of inflation and the direction of interest rates. If they are both going in the wrong direction in 1980, you're not going to be re-elected.

I studied economics with some teachers from ESADE. It's a really good school here in Spain. They helped me to understand a little about numbers, stats, economics, etc.

A strong economy is the source of national strength.

It's the economy, stupid.

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

We believe that - the President believes that the economy will continue to grow, that the economy will continue to create jobs, and that we need to do everything we can to enhance that growth and enhance that job creation.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.