Caroline Corr Quotes

Measuring the oil industry in dollars gives you a very warped view. Pick a sound currency such as Swiss francs or gold grams and look at the oil business through that lens.

It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust emerging China, many of you will recall, ramped up to near $150 a barrel. Then we had the financial - U.S. financial collapse. Oil prices collapsed all the way down to $40 a barrel.

Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

Different countries have different kinds of financial structures.

It does not mean of course that the pound here in Britain in your pocket has been devalued .

I think Brexit is disappointing from an economic perspective.

Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.

Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy.

A pickup in demand in many advanced economies and a stabilization in commodity prices should, in turn, boost the growth prospects of emerging market economies.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.

As treasury secretary, I don't see it as my role commenting on the dollar in short-term movements.

Emerging market economies have long grappled with the challenges posed by large and volatile cross-border capital flows.

There's no doubt that decisions made by the leading central banks do affect the global financial markets and, consequently, our situation.

Business cycles in emerging markets behave differently from developed markets.

It doesn't matter if it's platinum or 10-times platinum - it's a certification that lets me know that I'm not wasting my time in the studio. That being said, I don't let those certifications run my life.

The world economy is growing so fast.