David Rothkopf Quotes

The loss of manufacturing jobs is a sign of economic health.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Financial institutions risk becoming socially useless unless they focus on the real economy and help businesses invest and create jobs.

We need to realise that entrepreneurship is not necessarily increasing employment.

If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron... then you would be right.

The rich did well under Obama's policies; it was the working class that got creamed. This was because the economy just wouldn't grow as it usually does.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

The gap between rich and poor under President Obama is getting bigger because fewer well-paying jobs are available. Corporations are being taxed to the hilt and are loathe to add more workers. Thus, salaries fall because there are more than enough applicants to fill any job vacancy.

Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families.

People are worried about what’s going to happen to their jobs. There’s a lot of off-shoring and out-sourcing taking place. There’s a lot more mobility of labor and of people. Unless we explain what’s happening, people will resort to protectionism and xenophobia.

Debates about trade inevitably revolve around the question of jobs, even thought trade has little effect of aggregate employment levels.

A nation that cannot create jobs cannot survive.

The bottom line of a successful economic policy is jobs.

The wealth of a country is in its working people.

More than anything else, Ohio needs jobs.

I'm not happy exporting jobs but we must move ahead in technology and patents. I don't like losing any jobs but we'll see new opportunities created selling products there. We'll have a net increase in economic activity, just as we did with free trade. It's tempting to want to protect our markets and stay closed. But at some point it all comes crashing down and you're hopelessly left behind. Then you are Russia.

With the Clinton higher tax rates for the top two brackets, we had the longest and strongest economic expansion in U. S. history.

The middle class is the engine of this economy.

The skills and productivity of American Workers, .... are the greatest economic resource our country has.

The largest annual U.S. trade deficits since 1980 have been accompanied by the largest annual job-creation numbers in recent memory. The reason is simple: stronger economies tend to have stronger currencies, and the increased economic activities in these stronger economies and exchange-rate differentials lead inevitably to trade deficits

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.