Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash..

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market

… a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons..

I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave.

If Tung Chee-hwa dies, the stock market will take off.

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.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

We do not want financial convulsions.

I don’t care a damn about stocks and bonds, but I don’t want to see them go down the first day I am President.

The main threat to the successful New Economy is not in economics but in politics.

The business community won’t like it if the Federal Reserve raises the interest rate. They never do. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t do it.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

Washington doesn't understand interest rates and Wall Street doesn't understand Washington.

If the ... President has much more than a hangnail, the stock market goes crazy.

In good years, [the law] does not allow the state to capture so-called surplus revenue to save them for the downside of the business cycle

When the economy is bad, the economy is the only issue.

The division of responsibility between economics and politics is indeed one of the most difficult dilemmas with which we are confronted. "Give me a sound economic position, and I will pursue a sound policy", says the Statesman. "How can I pursue a sound policy", says the Economist, "if you do not give me a sound political position?”

As austerity measures were foisted upon Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and other highly indebted countries, growth was rendered even more elusive, aggravating unemployment

I cannot help but raise a dissenting voice to statements that we are living in a fool's paradise, and that prosperity in this country must necessarily diminish and recede in the near future

Shaking the confidence in the American economy. This will lead investors to refrain from investing in America or participating in American companies, thus accelerating the fall of the American economy.