Charlie Dent Quotes

During the slow recovery after the Great Recession, inflation was very low, and it took us a while to get it back moving up.

Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation.

The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.

If the national economy improves, Chicago will improve.

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The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President took office was the worst since the Great Depression.

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.

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.

Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.

Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.

As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.

There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.