Maria Bartiromo Quotes

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.

We're not very good at forecasting, and we don't know how to measure the impact of economic policy.

Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed, you can be sure that, like Eskimos, when they turn over, they'll all turn over together.

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.

We had massive tax cuts in the early phases of the [George W.] Bush years… The decade following was the worst growth rate in over 60 years.

Republicans seem to be gambling that most Americans won't care about a few rich private equity managers if their own taxes go down, their stock portfolio goes up, and economic growth accelerates.

Economics is in many respects the queen of the soft sciences. It's expected to be better than the rest. It's my view that economics is better at the multi-disciplinary stuff than the rest of the soft science. And it's also my view that it's still lousy.

I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

I'm not currently into economic textbooks, but my grandchildren tell me that the book by Gregory Mankiw, former head of the white house council of economic advisers is a model of intelligence and clarity. Why not try that one.

Almost every key indicator of the current economy - unemployment, deficits, housing, energy - argues that Obama's reactionary all-powerful statist approach has only made things far worse.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

President Bush announced his new economic plan. The centerpiece was a proposed repeal of the dividend tax on stocks, a boon that could be worth millions of dollars to average Americans. Well, average stock-owning Americans. Technically, Americans who own a significant amount of shares in dividend-dealing companies. Well, rich people, that's what I'm trying to say. They're going to do really well with this.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.