Steve Hilton Quotes

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 normal half-brained politician sometimes doesn't understand capital markets.

Political reactions from Wall Street, whether they [are] right of wrong, could eventually influence the real economy.

When Trump was a candidate, he talked about the stock market, because, oh, the stock market was going up when Obama was president.

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even remember the recession of 2001, let alone the previous one.

There are two things that can disrupt the American economy. One is a war. The other is a meeting of The Federal Reserve Board.

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street.

We feel that fundamentally Wall Street is sound, and that for people who can afford to pay for them outright, good stocks are cheap at these prices

This crash is not going to have much effect on business.

Economies are about momentum.

I have 13 bankers in my office, and they say that if you go forward with this you will cause the worst financial crisis since World War II.

Looking at the stock market to understand the economy is like studying a manic depressive in order to understand human nature.

Whenever global economy is reasonably doing well, the investment flows.

Trump will give you the robust bull: 25,000 on the Dow in the first term.

In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.

You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business correctly, Wall Street will take care of itself.

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.