Economic Effect Quotes

I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

If the price of a burger goes up 5 cents, and the minimum wage that you have received is going up from $7.25 to $15 an hour - and there have been a number of studies that document just how much the price of a burger might go up if you increase the minimum wage. You match the costs, and the benefits far outweigh the costs.

Immigration isn't always good for the economy or jobs.

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect.

Hillary Clinton wants to put all the miners out of business.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

Open borders drive wages down for the black community.

In one year malaria kills 15 times more people in the world than AIDS has ever done…Malaria also keeps people down. They cannot man their economy.

Almost all taxes on production fall finally on the consumer.

Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms.

All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

Remember that every dollar saved by health care reform is a dollar less for somebody’s earnings.

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

Tariffs would mean prices going up, and customers don't want higher prices.

I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.

You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.

Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?

Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

I don't think anybody has any idea what the economic impact of Brexit will be.

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.